Troy Gas Light Company

The Troy Gas Light Company was a gas lighting company in Troy, New York, United States. The Troy Gasholder Building is one of only ten or so remaining examples of a type of building that was common in Northeastern urban areas during the 19th century. It was designed by Frederick A. Sabbaton, a prominent gas engineer in New York State. Originally sheltering a telescoping iron storage tank for coal gas, the brick gasholder house is an imposing structure from a significant period in the history of Troy. For twenty-seven years the company held a monopoly on the manufacture of illuminating gas in the city.
The Troy gasholder was a telescoping two-lift type. Its top section had a diameter of 100 feet and a height of 22 feet . The lower section of the telescoping lift had a diameter of 101 feet, 6 inches, and a height of 22 feet . Its storage capacity was 333,000 cubic feet of gas. The gasholder's weight provided pressure for the distribution of gas in the supply mains. The gasholder pressure was 4½ inches of water column. The pressure was measured in inches, in terms of a height of column of water, as it was too low to measure in the more conventional pounds per square inch.

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