Caldwell moved to Louisville from Chicago in 1887 to rebuild the Hermitage Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky. An engineer, he would return to that background to form the W.E. Caldwell Company, specializing in the design and fabrication of storage tanks. The company built elevated tanks of wood - cypress, pine, and poplar - or steel and patented the Sectional Steel Tower which allowed them to build tanks in different shapes than the standard round or rectangular. Today, Caldwell Tanks is the largest manufacturer of elevated storage tanks in the world. Among the company's most well-known structures are the 64-foot-tall Old Forester bottle tank at Brown-Forman's corporate headquarters and the 7-story-tall baseball bat leaning against the Louisville Slugger Museum and Bat Factory. A Louisville citizen until his death, the Caldwell family lived on St. James Court in Old Louisville. The family home, the Conrad-Caldwell House, is a museum open to the public.
Caldwell moved to Louisville from Chicago in 1887 to rebuild the Hermitage Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky. An engineer, he would return to that background to form the W.E. Caldwell Company, specializing in the design and fabrication of storage tanks. The company built elevated tanks of wood - cypress, pine, and poplar - or steel and patented the Sectional Steel Tower which allowed them to build tanks in different shapes than the standard round or rectangular. Today, Caldwell Tanks is the largest manufacturer of elevated storage tanks in the world. Among the company's most well-known structures are the 64-foot-tall Old Forester bottle tank at Brown-Forman's corporate headquarters and the 7-story-tall baseball bat leaning against the Louisville Slugger Museum and Bat Factory. A Louisville citizen until his death, the Caldwell family lived on St. James Court in Old Louisville. The family home, the Conrad-Caldwell House, is a museum open to the public.
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