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 MKE_MFGng
Location: The Cream City; Mill-Town; Beer Capital, USA; Milwaukee
Gender: Male
 |  | Vilter MFG. Co.
< on 10/4/2011 5:47 PM >
|  | | | This place was really cool to check out imo. It was extremely old and had the classic cream city brick which means it was at least 90 years old (for those of you that don't know, the cream city brick is unique to Milwaukee in that the brick's chemical composition turned it cream color when fired instead of red like most bricks. This is because of the type of clay in the earth surrounding Milwaukee). We had to be quite careful exploring this place though as it is right next to a relatively busy street with a police station only 3 blocks away. The part of the building we did get into was the upper four stories which had lots of wooden shelves used for storing different materials. We found some very old wooden dies that the company used back when it was a leader in manufacturing steam engines and air compressors used in the cold storage industry. You can find more about the history by googling Vilter MFG Co. or by going here: http://www.emerson.../Pages/vilter.aspx . We had to access each floor by the fire escape on the right and we werent able to get into the left side or bottom floor of the building- which sucked because those parts seemed the coolest. It was fun mountaineering around the outside of the building though, except for when we were getting back on the roof and a police car drove right by... and by some act of God, he didn't see us. I was only able to take a few pictures but they managed so sum up the insides and outsides of the building pretty well. I would like to go back though some day and get inside of the rest of the building. Especially because I know a way in, but a way no one else wanted to take because it meant climbing through a window and using rope to manuever 20 ft above the ground to a nearby catwalk.
Up on top of the roof, which was pretty stable after taking steps carefully at first. Got a cool view of downtown and the south side.
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This is what all of the four upper floors looked like, totally empty except for all of the white painted wooden shelves.
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A look from one end of the warehouse part of the building to the other.
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Some sort of fluid control parts left here. Check out the old paper shreddings for the packaging material. Vintage!
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A neato 6000 lb. winch, sorry if the flash messed this one up.
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Some of the old wooden dies we found, who knows how old they are!
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Back during the daytime, this is what the building looks like on the outside and yes, it has that well aged very old cream city brick. You can see the fire escape on the right which we used to get into the floors of the building (the fire escape didnt go to the ground- you just can't tell from this view- and it would be difficult to get into the building from the fire escape since its so high off the ground). There was a large field further off to the right which went for about 100 yards and was once occupied by the rest of the factory. The taller part of the building on the left before it went up to five stories was the part we couldnt get into. And then obviously the first floor which must have been cool to see, was completely blocked off. I dont think I'm supposed to say how we got into the other part of the building though so I wont.
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[last edit 10/4/2011 9:02 PM by MKE_MFGng - edited 1 times]
Dude's got the knack! |
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