Hey Blake,
A block or so away from the National Planet War II Museum are the Woodward Loft Apartments, in an outdated developing with the terms Woodward Wight on it. Who or what was Woodward Wight?
Pricey reader,
Woodward Wight & Co. Ltd. was recognized in New Orleans in 1867 by Capt. Thomas Jefferson Woodward and Pearl Wight.
Woodward and Wight ended up equally originally from Maine and labored in the maritime marketplace. In accordance to his 1917 obituary, Woodward was a naval commander for the Union forces during the Civil War. Both of those males arrived to New Orleans shortly following the war ended and went into business with each other.
Originally their organization was a ship chandlery, or a enterprise that supplied machines and commodities for shipping vessels. In accordance to The Times-Picayune, the company grew into a nationally known distributor of industrial items, weighty equipment and wholesale hardware provides. With some 400 workers, it was also one of the premier distributors of general mill materials in the South.
The company’s 4-story principal warehouse at 451 Howard Ave. (now Andrew Higgins Boulevard) was constructed in 1912. Wight died in 1920 but the corporation survived for one more 60 yrs. It filed for Chapter 11 individual bankruptcy and shut in 1982.
The pursuing calendar year, developer Ed Boettner bought the Woodward Wight warehouse for $5.5 million. He and business companion Pres Kabacoff, by means of their business HRI Attributes, redeveloped the constructing into The Woodward, 1 of lots of Warehouse District developments that sprung up in the space next the 1984 World’s Honest.
After a $15.5 million renovation, the 193-unit condominium elaborate now known as the Woodward Loft Residences opened in 1987.

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