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 |  | A.F. Gallun Tannery, Milwaukee
< on 5/20/2011 8:36 PM >
|  | | | Some picks of the Gallun tannery from fall, 2010.
From Forgotten Milwaukee (https://pantherfil...search/index.html):
"Immigrating to Milwaukee in 1855 from Germany, tanner August Frederick Gallun established a domestic tannery with Albert Trostel. By 1885, Gallun continued the business without Trostel and under the name: A.F. Gallun and Sons Co, becoming one of the four largest calf-leather tanneries in the nation. By 1895, Gallun left management to his son. The complex was shut down in 1993.
The family has continued to own the six-acre property. In the 80's and 90's, the Galluns spent over $1 million cleaning up the contaminated site as per the EPA regulations. There has been renewed interest of the river-front property and the buildings for mixed-use and especially condo development."
None of the proposed deals over the years made it to a point of action and the building was left to sit and rot. It was partially demolished at the time that I was there, with only two buildings left in what was once a row of conjoined buildings. These pics are of the larger of the two buildings. The other one across the empty lot had only basement access, as the stairs needed to get to higher levels had been in the adjacent, attached building which had been previously razed. I read that the remaining two buildings were fully demolished earlier this year after a wall collapse. I'm only just beginning to learn about photography so comments and critiques are both useful and welcome.
The back of the building, which faced the river:
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There was not a lot of machinery left when I visited but what did remain was pretty cool:
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I presume these carts were once used to move sheets of leather from place to place. Here they have been pushed into the elevator shaft and sit on top of the elevator car:
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The other building at the opposite end of what once was a contiguous row and is now a field of rubble and weeds:
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My "partner-in-crime." Always use the buddy system!:
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The Milwaukee skyline from the roof:
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