I’d like to know what this building/location was used for and why this road was built and then just ends as a cliff? Then at the bottom of the hill is what looks like a parking lot except it can’t be, why would they have that place paved there?
Can anyone figure this out?
I’m going to guess it’s a pumphouse. Moving water or sewage from one elevation to another and they covered it with a structure so it would blend in. I’m sure there everywhere, but I know we have them around here, right in suburban neighborhoods. From the outside they look like normal one or two story houses. You almost have to get right up to it to see the windows aren’t clear before you realize it’s not a regular house.
Can you explain the road the jets out and then ends and the rails along it? I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen anything like that. There’s also no reason for the part at the bottom of the hill to be paved?
The Victorian pumping stations didn’t so much blend in… 
Zoom out. See the rectangular green thing. Is that a sewage lagoon?
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6540595,-86.8052635,163a,35y,183.99h,45t/data=!3m1!1e3
The rail, I assume, is just so someone doesn’t fall of the edge if they’re walking around the building. The rest, who knows. The paved part at the bottom could have nothing to do with anything. There’s a handful of structures there. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was farmland at one point or another.
The building could even just be a storage place for the city. Keep a few small things in there that they don’t need often and/or only in that area.
Using the historical photo feature in Google Earth, the “parking lot” appears to have been used in 2005 as … a parking lot. At least, there were several pickup trucks and some other unidentifiable equipment there.
As for the road to a cliff edge, my guess is that’s the slab floor of what was once a detached garage serving the adjacent building.
Right, there is no other place to park on top, it is a very shallow lot. There are a few garages like that along the Rocky River valley near me. Not for me…
I checked out the property in the Martin County GIS as they often have older photos of the buildings but you need to log in to view the property report. The entire area you are looking at is one piece of property, both on top at the road and down below.
Dennis
I figured it was the flat cement roof of a walk-out outbuilding built into the hill, which doubles as a convenient parking spot. There’s stairs down to a lower level floor for the little block building too.
Perhaps it’s an old gypsum mine? Apparently this area has quite a history of it.
It’s where the Illuminati stash their leaf blowers.