Fire Insurance Maps, Courtesy of New Orleans Public Library.

ID: 6395 ~ Source: Fire Insurance Maps, Courtesy of New Orleans Public Library. ~ Date: 1893
This file appears in: The Gex Pottery Site at the Lafitte Housing Project
A schematic of city square 281 in 1893 that shows "Commercial Cooperage Company" in the top right corner, along Carondelet Walk. The map includes a storage shed, furnace, and other buildings on the lot.

Although no plan was located of the lot during its use a pottery, Sanborn Insurance Maps of the address surveyed in 1893 illustrate the footprint of an industrial furnace when it operated as the “Commercial Cooperage Co.”; the plan includes two iron chimneys, one 50’ and the other 35’ high that would have been the source of a furnace.

This file appears in: The Gex Pottery Site at the Lafitte Housing Project