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
St. John’s Protestant Episcopal Church faces Center Square, has memorial
altar, white marble, with Caen stone reredos, and windows made by
Maitland Armstrong & Company; First Lutheran Church, one square east of
Center, corner of High and Bedford Streets; Italian Renaissance; yellow
brick, black and white trimmings; built, 1900; J. A. Dempwolf,
architect, York, Pennsylvania. The second Presbyterian Church, corner of
Hanover and Pomfret Streets; Gothic; built, 1869, has memorial window
over door, Moorish design; and fine fretwork choir rail. St. Patrick’s
Catholic Church; east Pomfret Street, has rose window of Tiffany glass;
and other windows from Munich; also memorial marble altar.
Ashland Cemetery, York Street, nearly a mile east from Center, contains
bronze statue, “Angel and Child,” made by Lamb & Co., in James W.
Bosler’s lot. The “Old Grave Yard,” three squares from Center, on east
South Street, contains Mollie Pitcher’s grave and monument; bronze
portrait figure standing, on granite pedestal, with bronze reliefs of
battle scenes extended on both sides; sculptor, J. R. Schweizer,
Philadelphia; a Civil War cannon is in front; old English and German
carvings from the year 1700 are in this cemetery. At Mount Rock, five
miles west of Carlisle, is the Ionic Monument, in memory of Governor
Ritner from 1835-39; erected by the state in 1902; architect, J. W. Ely,
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
[Illustration: DICKINSON COLLEGE, “OLD WEST,” CARLISLE]
THE INDIAN SCHOOL, one mile northeast from Center, was formerly a
military post, buildings were destroyed by Fitz Hugh Lee in 1863,
excepting the old guard house, built by the Hessian prisoners during the
Revolution, in 1777; this was the original “West Point” for the training
of officers and artisans, and for the manufacture of arms and munitions.
In 1776, and throughout the War, anthracite coal was taken down the
Susquehanna River from the Wyoming mines to the armory at Carlisle, said
to have been the first shipment of anthracite coal in this country;
there are now about twenty-five or thirty buildings, brick, of varied
architecture, on twenty-five acres of ground; gateway, Georgian, M. I.
Kast, architect, built, 1910; native Indian art is on exhibition in the
Leupp studio. George Washington joined the army of 15,000 men, as
Commander in Chief, at Carlisle, for suppression of the Whiskey
Insurrection in 1794; he was the guest of Ephraim Blaine; the army was
located on the opposite side of the town from the military post.
The Civic Club of Carlisle is placing classic art prints in the
public-school buildings. Interesting colonial houses: residence of
Ephraim Blaine, built, 1795, now law office and dwelling of Edward
Stiles, built, 1815; of Stephen Duncan, built, 1815, used by the
Fraternity of Owls; and that of Isaac B. Parker, built, 1820, the home
of the Elks.
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