Northern Liberties Brewery To Become 31 Homes?
Northern Liberties – after years of trying to find a use for the property, it seems as if the former Ortlieb’s (and Schmidt’s) brewery, located on American Street in Northern Liberties, could become 31 residential homes with 44 underground parking spaces. In December the Northern Liberties Neighborhood Association listened to the aforementioned proposal from developer William Vessal. According to HiddenCity, “Vessal has built more than a dozen condos adjacent to the bottling house at the former site of the Lawrence Ritter poultry plant, and in addition to the bottling house conversion, is planning to build nine single-family homes on the west side of American that will run 3,200 square feet and feature two car garages.” It will be interesting to see if this project comes to fruition.
According to WorkshopoftheWorld, 838-852 N. American Street (southwest corner of American and Poplar streets) comprises three buildings. To the south along American Street, ivory-colored terra cotta lettering set within the red brick proclaims “1914,” “HENRY F. ORTLIEB” and “BREW HOUSE.” On the corner building, made with hard orange bricks, limestone-colored cast stone elements proclaim, “1946” and “BREW-HOUSE.” Further west along Poplar Street, after a gap from demolition, and of the same construction is the “STOCK-HOUSE.” These buildings are in very poor shape. No glass remains in the windows, the masonry is bulging, and rust covers the steel frame. These buildings are likely to be demolished as was the section of the brewery that stretched to N. 3rd Street (between Ray King’s studio at 835 and Ortlieb’s Jazz House at 847). That 3rd Street section had a beautiful facade of vitrified Roman ironspot brick.
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