Gas Works Park is a park located in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is a 19.1-acre (77,000 m2) public park on the site of the former Seattle Gas Light Company gasification plant, located on the north shore of Lake Union at the south end of the Wallingford neighborhood. The park was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 2, 2013, over a decade after being nominated.
The park seen in 2011
The old gasification plant.
"PeaceWorks Park" anti-war protest at Gas Works, 1990
2007 photo of landscape architect Richard Haag, designer of the park
A gasworks or gas house is an industrial plant for the production of flammable gas. Many of these have been made redundant in the developed world by the use of natural gas, though they are still used for storage space.
Municipal gasworks in Poznań that produced coal gas between 1856 and 1973. Currently used for distribution of natural gas.
Disused gasworks that has become a public park located at 47°38′43″N 122°20′05″W / 47.64528°N 122.33472°W / 47.64528; -122.33472 in Seattle, Washington.
Retort house at the Launceston Gasworks, Launceston, Tasmania.
Gas-holders, Reading