It is remarkable, in fact, that the Gasworks ever survived the disastrous Third Ward fire of Octothat destroyed 410 buildings and 215 freight cars. Brick walls standing.” Another building across from today’s Gaslight Lofts “was badly damaged by fire. The Wisconsin Telegraph Company had a location there, where “a man sleeps in the building.” To the south, were “ruins of a fire. There was an oil warehouse, a barrel yard and yet another “gas holder,” the Sanborn map notes. Off to the east, where the Jefferson Lofts now stand, the Michigan Ammonia Works ran night and day on the same block as the Greenslade Foundry, with its dirt floor.
Jefferson St., where it is now home to Tulip Restaurant and other businesses. The building that actually performed the alchemy necessary to turn solid black coal into invisible coal gas (the plant was called the “Purifying House”) remains at 117 N. The lot was outfitted with brick retorts, blowers, scrubbers and underground naphtha oil tanks. It indicates there were four “gas holders” on the 3.79 acre property - one of which rose 84 feet above ground, a height which the current structures fail to reach. (which created such maps for insurance companies considering underwriting properties in the area) shows. In 1894 this entire block was part of a large complex used to convert coal to natural gas, as a map prepared by the Sanborn Co. The Gaslight name came from a former use of the property, from a day when it would have been unthinkable to see the streets of the Third Ward teeming with Summerfesters - a now-gentrified land where designer poodles in pairs are led by women in designer dresses. This is where Newaukee founder Ian Abston lives, in a 2 bedroom bachelor pad in the Gaslight portion of the complex. These four buildings occupy one city block bounded by N.
As you head to Summerfest this week, there’s a chance you will pass the Gaslight and Corcoran Lofts in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward.
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