Across the street, immediately to the north, was another foundry complex, vacant in 1894, but soon to come back to life for another century.īy 1907 the George Smith Steel Casting Company to the north was one of the largest buildings in the city, and the cottages grew fewer and fewer, displaced by industry while the supply of thirsty foundry workers ever increased. Already the neighborhood featured a Smelting Works, the Milwaukee Brass and Copper Works and Hack and Altjen’s Steam Dye Factory.
It was a small affair, maybe 25 feet square, and not much bigger (or more substantially constructed) than the humble cottages that abounded on the near South Side as Milwaukee plunged head-first into becoming a manufacturing colossus. In 1890 John Langenberger paid $1,600 to construct a foundry on this site.
