GTR Welding
Formerly
Highland Gas Company
219 South 7th Street
Image from Central News March 29, 1911, Improvements: Highland Gas Company Building Central News
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1913 Sanborn Walnut Street Highland Gas Works
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2025 GTR Welding - Rick Doll image
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In 1911 Highland Gas Company constructed this building to manufacture gas used for cooking and heating. Gas was manufactured by heating coal or oil to produce flammable gas.
The building had three sections for generating, purifying, and compressing. A 44-foot-tall gas holding tank was constructed just south of the building. Gas manufacturing ended by the 1930’s when a natural gas pipeline to Perkasie was completed.
Highland Gas Company eventually became part of U.G. I. Company.
The building was sold to Perkasie Borough Authority in 1968 for use as an office and maintenance shop. Since the mid-1990’s the building has been home to GTR Welding.
Reference Perkasie Historical Society archives
Doll
The building had three sections for generating, purifying, and compressing. A 44-foot-tall gas holding tank was constructed just south of the building. Gas manufacturing ended by the 1930’s when a natural gas pipeline to Perkasie was completed.
Highland Gas Company eventually became part of U.G. I. Company.
The building was sold to Perkasie Borough Authority in 1968 for use as an office and maintenance shop. Since the mid-1990’s the building has been home to GTR Welding.
Reference Perkasie Historical Society archives
Doll