A guide book of art, architecture, and historic interests in Pennsylvania
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A guide book of art, architecture, and historic interests in Pennsylvania
Architecture -- Pennsylvania; Art -- Pennsylvania; Historic buildings -- Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania -- Guidebooks; Pennsylvania -- History
Among Lancaster’s numerous churches are, the Moravian, West Orange
Street, rear part stone, built, 1750, oldest in the city, brick front
added, 1820. First Reformed, East Orange Street, brick; Romanesque;
built, 1852-54; two steeples, contains lectern and other pieces of
woodcarving by A. Lang of Oberammergau, nephew of Anton Lang, made,
1905; decorations by J. F. Lamb, New York; windows from Tiffany and
D’Ascenzo studios; bronze memorial tablet by Martha Hovenden. St. James
Protestant Episcopal, corner of East Orange and North Duke Streets,
Norman, brick; main walls built, 1820, added to 1870 and 1910; chancel
windows from England, others by Lamb and the Tiffany Studios, New York;
oil painting, “The Crucifixion,” artist, Jacob Eicholtz; pictorial tile
base at altar, by Dr. Henry Mercer; in parish house is fifteenth century
oil painting, Urbanean School. St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic, East Orange
Street, bronze altar and statues from Oux et Cie, Paris; frescoes by
Ludwig Reingruber are adaptations of old masters. Trinity Lutheran,
South Duke Street, brick; fine old Georgian style, compares with Christ
Church, Philadelphia; built, 1761; tower and spire added, 1794; wood
sculpture, four evangelists, at base of tower; original pipe organ
built, 1771, was utilized in new organ; memorial windows by the Tiffany
Company, and by Joseph Lauber, New York City.
Fulton Opera House, Prince Street between Orange and West King Streets,
on site of massacre of Conestoga Indians by Paxtang boys in 1763, over
entrance, life-size statue, carved wood, of Robert Fulton, made, 1852,
sculptor, Hugh Cannon: the Lancaster County Historical Society placed a
tablet on the wall of Robert Fulton’s birthplace, built, 1765; southern
part of Lancaster County, Fulton Township, A. Herr Smith, Memorial Free
Library, North Duke Street; Italian villa style; contains portraits of
notable men identified with Lancaster County. Post Office and Revenue
Building, North Duke Street, Italian Renaissance; Indiana limestone;
built by United States Government. Guaranty Trust Company, North Duke
Street, Ionic, marble, built, 1912. The Henry G. Long Asylum, corner of
Marietta and West End Avenues, contains two portraits by Jacob Eicholtz.
The Iris Club, founded by Miss Alice Nevin, has annual exhibition of
paintings.
In Woodward Hill Cemetery, southern part of city, on the Conestoga, is
tomb of President James Buchanan. Greenwood Cemetery, end of South Queen
Street, has stone entrance, made, 1895, by Rothenberger. Tomb of
Thaddeus Stevens, white and black marble and granite, is in Shreiner
burial ground. West Chestnut Street, corner of Shippen and Ross
Streets, is inclosure and small brick monument topped by stone sphere,
site of George Ross’s mansion. Bountiful markets held on the curbs, as
well as in the market houses, are a distinctive and picturesque feature
of the town; the presence of the Mennonite, Amish, and other sects lends
a peculiar aspect to the scene.
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