(2021) Architect Gregg Scott hosts a tour of Lancaster City's historic architecture, beginning at Penn Square and its war memorial monument, the Watt and Shand facade of the Lancaster Marriott, to Central Market to Charlie Wagner's Tavern
00:35 - HELLO
00:35 - MY NAME IS GREG SKY. I AM AN
00:37 - ARCHITECT HERE IN LANCASTER
00:38 - CITY. I AM STANDING IN
00:41 - PENN SQUARE, WHICH IS THE
00:43 - EPICENTER OF THE CITY OF
00:45 - LANCASTER BEHIND ME IS THE
00:47 - SOLDIER AND SAILORS MONUMENT
00:49 - WAS DEDICATED
00:50 - JULY 4TH. 1874 WAS DESIGNED BY
00:54 - LOUIS HALL D LEWIS WAS ACTUALLY
00:57 - A VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR, IT
00:58 - WAS DEDICATED TO THE VETERANS
01:00 - OF THE CIVIL WAR PAID FOR
01:02 - ACTUALLY BUY WOMEN OF VETERANS
01:05 - OF THE CIVIL WAR. THE
01:06 - INTERESTING STORY IS THAT IT
01:09 - DESIGNED IN GOTHIC REVIVAL AND
01:11 - THERE'S ACTUALLY A SISTER
01:13 - MONUMENT TO THIS IN MERIDEN
01:15 - CONNECTICUT THAT MISTER HALL
01:17 - THE ALSO DESIGNED FOR THEM.
01:19 - PRIOR TO THE MONUMENT SITTING
01:21 - IN THIS SQUARE
01:22 - WAS THE ORIGINAL LANCASTER
01:24 - COURTHOUSE, IT WAS CONSTRUCTED
01:26 - IN THE YEAR. 1739 AND IT
01:29 - STOOD HERE IN THE CENTER OF
01:31 - THE CITY UNTIL 1852 WHEN IT WAS
01:34 - TAKEN AWAY.
01:36 - THE ORIGINAL COURTHOUSE WAS
01:38 - DESIGNED IN A GEORGIAN STYLE TO
01:40 - STORY ALL BRICK
01:41 - WE HAD FOR EQUAL SIDES WITH
01:43 - 4 MAIN ENTRANCES AND
01:45 - PEDESTRIANS CARRIAGES AND
01:47 - HORSES WOULD ACTUALLY
01:48 - CIRCUMVENT AROUND THE 4 SIDES
01:50 - OF
01:51 - THE BUILDING. INTERESTINGLY IT
01:53 - WAS DESTROYED BY A FIRE AND
01:56 - 1752
01:57 - AND REBUILT EXACTLY THE WAY IT
01:59 - WAS BEFORE THE FIRE. TOOK IT
02:02 - OVER.
02:03 - SITTING ATOP OF THE MONUMENT IS
02:05 - THE GENIUS OF LIBERTY THE
02:07 - GENIUS OF LIBERTY IS SOMEONE
02:08 - THAT MOST OF US JUST WALKED BY
02:10 - AND REGULAR BASIS AND NEVER
02:11 - REALLY HAVE AN APPRECIATION
02:13 - OF HER. SHE HAS ON HER SHIELD
02:16 - 13 STARS REPRESENTING THE 13
02:19 - COLONIES AND HONOR CROWN THERE
02:21 - ARE 5 STARS.
02:23 - I ALWAYS RECOMMEND THAT PEOPLE
02:24 - TAKE TIME AND ADMIRE THE BEAUTY
02:27 - OF THE SCULPTURE AND THE
02:28 - ARTISTRY OF MISTER HALL D.
02:31 - WE'RE LOOKING AT THE.
02:33 - LANCASTER COUNTY CONVENTION
02:34 - CENTER FORMERLY THE WALK AND
02:36 - SHAN DEPARTMENT STORE
02:38 - CONSTRUCTED IN THE YEAR 1898.
02:41 - DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT C THAT'S
02:44 - FOR CASH US AND
02:45 - LYNN URBAN CM AN URBAN WAS
02:48 - LANCASTER IS MOST DOMINANT
02:49 - PROMINENT ARCHITECT FOR ABOUT
02:51 - 50 YEARS BETWEEN 1888 AND
02:55 - 1939, THIS BUILDING BEHIND ME
02:57 - WAS ONE OF HIS FIRST
02:59 - HALLMARK DESIGNS IN THE CITY
03:01 - BECAUSE HE INTRODUCED THE CITY
03:02 - OF LANCASTER
03:03 - FRENCH INSPIRED STYLE OF
03:06 - ARCHITECTURE CALLED THOSE ARE
03:08 - THOSE ARE IS IT THE STYLE
03:10 - THAT'S INSPIRED
03:11 - BY PARIS AND IT INTRODUCED A
03:14 - LIGHT AND AIRY STYLE OF
03:16 - ARCHITECTURE HERETOFORE ALL THE
03:18 - BUILDINGS IN OUR CITY WERE
03:20 - ALWAYS RED-BRICK THEY RE EITHER
03:22 - AND GEORGIA IS QUEEN AM.
03:24 - WHERE FEDERAL STYLE.
03:26 - ARCHITECTURE VERY HEAVY, VERY
03:29 - GROUNDED. AND WHEN HE
03:30 - INTRODUCED A WATCH AND
03:31 - APARTMENT STORE IN OUR CITY.
03:33 - IT WAS A WHOLE NEW PALETTE OF
03:35 - COLOR
03:35 - AND MATERIAL. ALTHOUGH THE
03:38 - DEPARTMENT STORE LOOKS LIKE ONE
03:40 - COHESIVE BUILDING IS ACTUALLY A
03:42 - SERIES OF
03:43 - THE 5 PHASES OF CONSTRUCTION
03:45 - OVER ALMOST 50 YEARS
03:47 - ITS PHASE WAS RESPECTFUL OF THE
03:49 - PREVIOUS PHASE, SO IT LOOKS
03:50 - LIKE A HE'S THE ONE BUILDING.
03:54 - BUT IN REALITY IT'S A WHOLE
03:55 - SERIES OF SEPARATE BUILDINGS.
03:57 - THE OTHER THING THAT'S
03:58 - INTERESTING IS THERE ARE 13
04:00 - LION HEADS AROUND THE PERIMETER
04:02 - OF THE BUILDING WHETHER OR NOT
04:04 - THAT WAS INTENTIONAL BY MISTER
04:06 - URBAN WE DON'T KNOW, BUT IT IS
04:08 - A CURIOUS FACT THAT IT DOES
04:09 - REPRESENT 1313 COLONIES,
04:12 - 13 STARS ON MONUMENT HERE IN
04:16 - CENTER SQUARE. FEATURE THAT A
04:19 - LOT OF PEOPLE MISS IS THE CLOCK
04:21 - WATCH AND ACTUALLY HAS A CLOCK
04:23 - AND BENEATH THE CLOCK IS A
04:25 - FIGUREHEAD OF A GOAT AND
04:27 - THERE'S 2 SWAGS LEFT AND RIGHT
04:29 - OF THE GO. NOT EXACTLY SURE
04:31 - THE REPRESENTATION WHERE
04:33 - MEANING OF THAT FIGURE. BUT IT
04:35 - SURE IS A CURIOSITY TO ME.
04:38 - BEHIND ME IS THE GRACE
04:40 - TO BUILDING THE GRACE BUILDING
04:41 - WAS CONSTRUCTED IN THE YEAR
04:44 - 1924.
04:45 - IT WAS THE FIRST SKYSCRAPER
04:47 - IN THE CITY
04:48 - OF LANCASTER AND REMAINS THE
04:50 - TALLEST STRUCTURE UNTIL THE
04:51 - MARRIOTT HOTEL WAS CONSTRUCTED
04:53 - SEVERAL
04:53 - YEARS AGO.
04:54 - IT'S DESIGNED IN AN ITALIAN
04:56 - RENAISSANCE STYLE BY ARCHITECT,
04:59 - SEE EMILY AND
05:00 - HER BEEN ANOTHER INTERESTING
05:02 - STORY ABOUT MISTER URBAN IS
05:04 - HE GRADUATED FROM THE BOYS HIGH
05:05 - SCHOOL HERE IN LANCASTER CITY
05:07 - IN THE YEAR 1880.
05:09 - HE WAS THE TOP OF HIS CLASS
05:10 - GRADUATED WITH THE HIGHEST
05:11 - HONORS. UNLIKE OTHER ARCHITECTS
05:14 - OF THE TIME HE ELECTED NOT TO
05:16 - GO TO FORMAL
05:17 - COLLEGE EDUCATION. BUT DECIDED
05:19 - INSTEAD TO APPRENTICE WITH
05:21 - OTHER ARCHITECTS WENT TO
05:23 - SCRANTON FOR 18 MONTHS THEN
05:25 - WENT TO PHILADELPHIA FOR ABOUT
05:26 - 30 MONTHS
05:27 - IT CAME BACK TO LANCASTER AT
05:29 - THE YOUNG AGE OF 21.
05:32 - IT TOOK THE START OF HIS CAREER
05:34 - ANY DESIGNED OVER 400 AND 50
05:36 - BUILDINGS IN OUR CITY.
05:38 - SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT A 14 STORY
05:40 - SKYSCRAPER THAT'S PRETTY
05:42 - SERIOUS BUSINESS AND TO THINK
05:44 - THAT THAT STRUCTURE WAS
05:45 - DESIGNED BY A YOUNG MAN WHO
05:47 - BASICALLY HAD A HIGH
05:48 - SCHOOL DIPLOMA AND 4 YEARS OF
05:51 - APPRENTICESHIP IS PRETTY
05:52 - AMAZING. I LOVE THIS BUILDING
05:54 - IT HAS A LOT OF CHARACTER AND
05:56 - PERSONALITY TO IT, MISTER BEEN
05:58 - DESIGNED IT IN THE VERY
05:59 - TRADITIONAL THREE-PART MEANING
06:02 - WE HAVE THE BASE THE MIDDLE AND
06:04 - THE TOP.
06:06 - ONE THING MISTER ERVIN EXCELLED
06:08 - AT WAS BACKING ARCHITECTURE
06:09 - FRIENDLY AND ACCESSIBLE TO THE
06:11 - PEDESTRIAN. SO YOU WALK AROUND
06:13 - THE BASE OF HIS TALL BUILDING.
06:15 - IF YOU DON'T REALLY APPRECIATE
06:17 - THAT IT IS
06:18 - A SKYSCRAPER. IT KIND OF
06:20 - RELATES TO US AT THE
06:21 - STREET LEVEL AT THE VERY TOP OF
06:23 - THE BUILDING, THE CROWN OF THE
06:24 - BUILDING OR THE CAP OF
06:25 - THE BUILDING WAS ACTUALLY A 2
06:28 - STORY TALL BALLROOM WITH A
06:30 - CAPACITY OF 350 IN
06:33 - THE AUDITORIUM, QUITE AN
06:35 - AMAZING SPACE I'VE NEVER SEEN
06:37 - IT PERSONALLY IT HAS SINCE BEEN
06:40 - THE COMMISSION HAS A BALLROOM
06:42 - ANDREE COMMISSION HAS A 2 STORY
06:45 - HAS A NAME. FOLLOWING UP ON OUR
06:47 - COMMENT ABOUT MISTER BEEN DOING
06:50 - THINGS AT STREET LEVEL TO KIND
06:51 - OF PEAK PEDESTRIANS CURIOSITY.
06:54 - THE GRACE BUILDING HAS A
06:55 - SERIES A CURIOUS MEDALLIONS ALL
06:57 - AROUND
06:58 - THE PERIMETER AND MOST I'D SAY
07:02 - 99% OF THE PEOPLE.
07:03 - I THINK THAT NOW I REPRESENTS
07:05 - MEDICINE. WELL, THE REALITY IS
07:08 - THE MEDICAL MEDALLION HAS ONE
07:10 - SERPENT AROUND THE STAFF
07:12 - AND THIS CASE THERE ARE 2
07:14 - SERPENTS INTERTWINED AROUND
07:16 - THAT STAFF, THE DOUBLE SURFIN
07:18 - REPRESENTS THE SYMBOL FOR
07:19 - COMMERCE. MISTER WILLIAM WALTON
07:22 - CHRIST WAS PREEMINENT IN THE
07:24 - CITY AND IN CHARGE OF ALL OF
07:26 - OUR PUBLIC UTILITIES. THE
07:28 - BUILDING WAS NAMED
07:29 - AFTER HIM. THE OTHER THING THAT
07:31 - WE FOUND INTERESTING WAS IN THE
07:33 - HERSHEY ARCHIVES IN HERSHEY
07:35 - PENNSYLVANIA. WE DISCOVERED A
07:37 - LETTER THAT MILTON HERSHEY
07:39 - WROTE TO MISTER ROY AND WALTON
07:42 - CHRIST SUGGESTING THAT MR.
07:44 - GRICE HIGHLY CONSIDER HIS
07:46 - ARCHITECT. MISTER CM ONE URBAN
07:49 - TO DESIGN HIS SKYSCRAPER IN THE
07:51 - CENTER OF LANCASTER CITY.
07:53 - CENTRAL MARKET IS PROBABLY OUR
07:55 - MOST FAMOUS AND RECOGNIZABLE
07:57 - BUILDING IN THE CITY OF
07:59 - LANCASTER DID WAS CONSTRUCTED
08:01 - IN THE YEAR.
08:02 - IN 1889 AND DESIGNED BY JAMES
08:05 - H WARNER IN A ROMANESQUE
08:08 - REVIVAL STYLE. JAMES AGE,
08:11 - WARNER WAS ONLY IN OUR CITY FOR
08:14 - A VERY BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME IN
08:16 - 1889 TO 19 OH ONE BUT IN THOSE
08:19 - 1112 YEARS, THE DESIGN SOME OF
08:21 - THE MOST. RECOGNIZABLE
08:24 - BUILDINGS IN OUR CITY ALONGSIDE
08:26 - OF SEATTLE
08:26 - AND URBAN. MR. WARNER HOWEVER,
08:29 - HOLDS THE DISTINCTION OF BEING
08:31 - THE ONLY ARCHITECT IN OUR CITY
08:33 - TO HAVE HIS NAME
08:35 - INSCRIBED IN STONE ON THE SIDE
08:38 - OF
08:38 - THE BUILDING. SOME OF THE
08:40 - INTERESTING ARCHITECTURAL
08:41 - DETAILS ON THE BUILDING IS
08:43 - THE VERY INTERESTING
08:44 - CHECKERBOARD PATTERN THAT'S
08:46 - LOCATED ON THE GABLES
08:48 - AROUND THE PERIMETER OF THE
08:49 - BUILDING THAT IS A BLACK AND
08:51 - WHITE BROWNSTONE AND HE USED
08:54 - AT THE TOP AND HE ALSO USED THE
08:55 - BROWNSTONE AT THE BASE OF THE
08:57 - BUILDING. THE OTHER THING THAT
08:59 - MAKES IT A ROMANESQUE REVIVAL
09:00 - IS HIS USE OF THE FULL ROMAN
09:03 - ARCH OVER WINDOWS AND OTHER
09:05 - DESIGN ELEMENTS ON THE
09:06 - BUILDING.
09:08 - LANCASTER CITY IS FORTUNATE TO
09:10 - HAVE OVER 14 STYLES
09:13 - OF ARCHITECTURE WITHIN ONE
09:15 - BLOCK OF THE SOLDIERS AND
09:17 - SAILORS MONUMENT AND ONE OF THE
09:19 - STYLES IT BEHIND ME IS ART DECO
09:23 - WE'RE LOOKING AT THE SHARD SHOE
09:25 - STORE, THE SIGN IN THE YEAR
09:28 - 1925 BY ARCHITECT HENRY SHAW
09:31 - FOR HIS BROTHER.
09:33 - BENJAMIN SHAW. IT'S A GREAT
09:35 - EXAMPLE OF ART DECO USING
09:38 - FRENCH A
09:38 - PLATE GLASS, THERE IS GREEN
09:41 - LEADED GLASS WINDOWS WITH A
09:43 - LOZENGE SENATOR PITTED WINDOW.
09:46 - THERE'S ALSO A BEAUTIFUL
09:48 - PENDANT THAT IS SUSPENDED FROM
09:51 - I A BOMB THAT COMES DOWN AND
09:54 - LIGHTS THE ENTRY TO THE AND OR
09:56 - BELOW.
09:58 - ONE
09:58 - OF THE ART DECO DESIGN TEAM
10:00 - DETAILS THAT MOST PEOPLE MISS
10:02 - ON THIS BUILDING. THERE'S THAT
10:03 - BEAUTIFUL BRONZE STYLIZED
10:06 - PEACOCK AND ADJACENT TO AND
10:08 - RUNNING AROUND THE PEACOCK IS A
10:10 - DESIGN DETAIL CALLED ZIGZAG AND
10:13 - THAT ZIGZAGS ALSO IN CAST
10:14 - BRONZE. IN THE YEAR 1921 MILES
10:18 - GOODMAN COMMISSIONED ARCHITECT
10:20 - CM AN URBAN TO DESIGN A NEW
10:23 - FURNITURE STORE FOR HIM AND THE
10:25 - CALL THAT THE KEYSTONE
10:26 - FURNITURE STORE.
10:28 - IT WAS LATER SOLD TO MISTER
10:30 - HAROLD IT WAS THEN NAMED OR
10:32 - RENAMED HAROLD'S FURNITURE
10:33 - STORE, THE SERVE AND ELECTED TO
10:35 - USE A INTERESTING ARCHITECTURAL
10:37 - STYLES ONLY
10:39 - 2 BUILDINGS IN OUR CITY OF THIS
10:41 - PARTICULAR STYLE AND
10:42 - IT'S CALLED PERPENDICULAR
10:44 - GOTHIC AND WE CALL IT
10:46 - PERPENDICULAR GOTHIC BECAUSE IT
10:48 - IS ALL BASED ON THE EXTREME
10:51 - VERTICALITY ALL OF THE
10:52 - ARCHITECTURAL DETAILING IS
10:54 - LITERALLY STRETCHED TO
10:56 - ACCENTUATE THE NORTH SOUTH AXIS
10:59 - ON THE BUILDING. THE SURVEY
11:01 - ALSO ELECTED TO USE ONE OF HIS
11:03 - FAVORITE BUILDING MATERIALS
11:04 - WHICH IS WHITE THE BLAZE.
11:07 - TERRA COTTA TILE
11:08 - THE BENEFIT OF USING WHITE
11:10 - GLAZED TERRA COTTA TILE IS IT
11:12 - IS SELF CLEANING SO THROUGHOUT
11:15 - THE COURSE OF A YEAR
11:16 - WITH RAIN AND OTHER WEATHER
11:18 - ELEMENTS IT CONTINUES TO SELF
11:20 - WASH ITSELF, AND THAT'S WHY
11:22 - THIS BUILDING CELEBRATING 100
11:25 - YEARS THIS YEAR, IT LOOKS BRAND
11:27 - NEW.
11:29 - WE'RE GOING TO PARIS NOW FOR
11:31 - THE KIRK JOHNSON BUILDING WHICH
11:33 - WAS DESIGNED IN THE YEAR
11:35 - 1911 AND DESIGNED BY MISTER CM
11:38 - ONE URBAN.
11:39 - FOR MISTER KIRK JOHNSON KIRK
11:42 - JOHNSON WAS A
11:43 - A VERY WELL KNOWN DEALER OF
11:45 - MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
11:47 - IN THE CITY OF LANCASTER THAT
11:49 - PERIOD IN OUR HISTORY.
11:51 - THIS URBAN DOES DECIDED TO USE
11:53 - A FRENCH-INSPIRED A BEAUTIFUL
11:56 - FRENCH BAROQUE
11:57 - ARCHITECTURAL STYLE. THE BEAUTY
12:00 - AND MAJESTY OF THIS BUILDING IS
12:01 - THE MAGNIFICENT DORMER
12:03 - AT THE VERY TOP OF THE 75 FOOT
12:05 - TALL STRUCTURE. IT'S ONLY
12:07 - 25 FEET WIDE AND 75 FEET TALL,
12:10 - SO IT'S VERY TALL AND SLENDER
12:12 - BUT IT IS JUST LOADED WITH
12:14 - MAGNIFICENT ARCHITECTURAL
12:16 - DETAILS I PARTICULARLY LIKE THE
12:18 - MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CALLED THE
12:20 - LAYER. UNDERNEATH
12:22 - DORMER IN GAUGING THE LEFT AND
12:24 - RIGHT SIDES OF THE PLAYS TERRA
12:27 - COTTA DETAIL.
12:30 - THE HAGUE OR DEPARTMENT STORE
12:31 - WAS DESIGNED IN THE YEAR 1911
12:34 - FOR THE HAGER FAMILY. THE HAGER
12:36 - FAMILY WAS IN DIRECT
12:37 - COMPETITION WITH THE WATCH AND
12:39 - DEPARTMENT STORE A BLOCK AWAY.
12:42 - SO MISTER ERVIN
12:43 - THE ARCHITECT ELECTED TO
12:45 - INTRODUCE THE CITY OF LANCASTER
12:47 - TO THE FIRST ALL STEAL
12:49 - THE BUILDING. FOR ALL THE
12:52 - STRUCTURES IN OUR CITY WHERE
12:53 - WHAT WE CALL MASONRY LOAD
12:54 - BEARING BUILDINGS HAGER
12:56 - DEPARTMENT STORE REPRESENTS THE
12:58 - FIRST ALL STEEL STRUCTURE.
13:00 - BUT IT IS IN CASE WITH A VERY
13:01 - TRADITIONAL CLASSIC
13:04 - FRENCH RENAISSANCE REVIVAL
13:05 - STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE. THIS
13:07 - TERM AND ALSO USED HIS FAMOUS
13:10 - GLAZED WHITE TERRA
13:11 - COTTA TILES TO GIVE IT THAT
13:13 - PARTICULAR SHEEN AND CRISP
13:16 - APPEARANCE LIKE THE OTHER
13:19 - BUILDINGS OF THIS SAME MATERIAL
13:21 - IT ALWAYS LOOKS VERY BRIGHT AND
13:23 - ALWAYS VERY WHITE. WHAT THIS
13:25 - DID FOR THE DEPARTMENT STORE
13:27 - WAS IT INTRODUCED A LOT MORE
13:29 - NATURAL LIGHT IN TO THE
13:31 - INTERIOR OF THE BUILDING
13:32 - BECAUSE HE WAS NOT BURN OR
13:34 - LIMITED BY THE USE OF MASONRY
13:36 - FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE
13:38 - DEPARTMENT STORE.
13:40 - SOME OF MY FAVORITE DETAILS ON
13:42 - THE HAGUE OR DEPARTMENT STORE
13:43 - OR THE BEAUTIFUL GLAZED TERRA
13:46 - COTTA MEDALLIONS JUST ABOVE
13:48 - STREET LEVEL AND THEN AT THE
13:49 - VERY TOP YOU CAN SEE THE
13:51 - MEDALLIONS THAT HAVE THE LETTER
13:53 - H IN BOSTON THEM AND OF COURSE
13:55 - THE AGE STANDS FOR THE
13:57 - HAGER FAMILY, THEY WERE THE
13:58 - LONGEST CONTINUOUSLY OPERATED
14:01 - DEPARTMENT STORE IN THE UNITED
14:03 - STATES STARTING.
14:04 - AND 1823 AND AT THE END OF
14:09 - THIS LAST CENTURY.
14:13 - FULTON HALL AS IT WAS KNOWN
14:15 - IN THE YEAR, 1852 WHEN IT WAS
14:17 - CONSTRUCTED.
14:19 - KIND OF REMINDS ME OF THAT CAT
14:20 - WITH 9 LIVES OVER
14:23 - 170 SOME YEARS. IT HAS
14:25 - UNDERGONE MANY MANY DIFFERENT
14:27 - ITERATIONS BUT ALWAYS HAS
14:28 - CONTINUED AS A THEATER
14:30 - OF PERFORMANCE. IT WAS DESIGNED
14:33 - BY PHILADELPHIA ARCHITECT
14:34 - SAMUEL SLOAN, SANTA SLOAN WAS
14:37 - ALSO THE ARCHITECT FOR
14:38 - LANCASTER CITY OR LANCASTER
14:40 - COUNTY COURTHOUSE
14:41 - AS WELL. SO ONE OF THE HE
14:44 - DESIGNED THIS IN THE ITALIANATE
14:46 - STYLE OF ONE OF THE HALLMARKS
14:48 - OR
14:48 - DESIGN FEATURES OF ITALIANATE
14:51 - ARCHITECTURE ARE VERY TALL AND
14:52 - SLENDER WINDOWS. IN
14:54 - ADDITION TO VERY DEEP AND
14:56 - ROBUST ROOF OVERHANGS
14:58 - AND BRACKETS SO YOU NOTICE ON
15:00 - THE OUTSIDE OF THIS BUILDING
15:02 - THAT ALL OF THOSE COME INTO
15:03 - PLAY TO GIVE THIS A SIGNATURE
15:05 - APPEARANCE FOR
15:06 - ITALIANATE DESIGN. SO AS A
15:10 - THEATER OF THIS AGE UNDERWENT
15:12 - ANOTHER MASSIVE RENOVATION IN
15:15 - THE YEAR. 1875 BY A
15:18 - PHILADELPHIA ARCHITECT NAMED
15:20 - AND WHEN FAR AS THE RANG
15:22 - AND AT THAT TIME MISTER DE RANG
15:24 - INTRODUCE THE INTERIOR OF THE
15:25 - BUILDING TO A VICTORIAN STYLE
15:27 - OF ARCHITECTURE AND THAT PLAYED
15:30 - VERY WELL WITH THE AUDIENCE IN
15:32 - TILL.
15:33 - VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE BECAME
15:35 - TIRED AND OLD
15:36 - OR NOT VERY WELL RESPECTED BY
15:38 - THE AUDIENCE'S SO IN THE YEAR
15:40 - 19 '02 THE THEN OWNER OF THE
15:43 - THEATER. CHARLES YET KERR
15:45 - RETAINED ARCHITECT PCN, AN
15:47 - URBAN TO GIVE IT
15:50 - A NEW LOOK AND THE NEWSPAPER
15:51 - ACCOUNTS IN THE YEAR
15:52 - 19 TOO INDICATE THAT MISTER
15:55 - URBAN LITERALLY CLEAN HOUSE,
15:57 - THE WALLS WERE BASICALLY TAKEN
15:59 - DOWN TO THE BARE BONES, THE
16:01 - ONLY THING LEFT INSIDE THE
16:03 - THEATER WAS THE MAIN PRIMARY
16:05 - BALCONY THAT YOU SEE TODAY.
16:08 - HE THEN RETROFITTED THE ENTIRE
16:09 - INTERIOR WITH A LOOK THAT WE
16:11 - HAVE TODAY
16:12 - WHICH WE CALLED CLASSICAL
16:14 - DESIGN. SO IT'S VERY VERY
16:16 - ORNATE LOTS OF GOLD LEAF.
16:18 - IT'S JUST A REAL TREAT FOR THE
16:20 - EYES. SO WHEN THE STAGE ISN'T
16:22 - PERFORMING. THE AUDIENCE CAN
16:24 - ENJOY THE ARCHITECTURE OF
16:26 - NEOCLASSICAL AS I DETAIL.
16:30 - THE SOUTHERN FARMERS MARKET WAS
16:32 - DESIGNED IN THE YEAR 1888 BY
16:34 - ARCHITECT SEA AND
16:35 - LAND URBAN.
16:36 - THEY CHOSE QUEEN AND AS THE
16:38 - DESIGN STYLE FOR HIS REALLY
16:40 - FIRST A MAJOR A
16:42 - PUBLIC COMMISSION. WE
16:44 - UNDERSTAND THAT HE WAS ONLY 24
16:47 - YEARS OLD WHEN HE DESIGNED THIS
16:49 - MAGNIFICENT MARKET HOUSE
16:50 - AND WE ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT BY
16:52 - THE TIME HE WAS
16:53 - 24 YEARS OLD. IT ALREADY
16:56 - DESIGNED OVER 130 BUILDINGS IN
16:59 - OUR COMMUNITY. SO IT'S QUITE A
17:01 - SPECTACULAR FEAT. JUST
17:03 - THAT ALONE. SOME OF THE DESIGN
17:06 - FEATURES THAT MAKE THIS
17:07 - BUILDING, ESPECIALLY
17:08 - INTERESTING IS THE
17:09 - TERRA COTTA DATES TONE AT THE
17:12 - TOP OF THE PEAK, 1888 AND THEN
17:15 - A LITTLE LOWER DOWN YOU'LL
17:16 - SEE 2 TO ANIMAL HEADS THAT ARE
17:20 - PART OF THE MEDALLIONS IN THE
17:21 - FACADE OF THE BUILDING ONE IS A
17:23 - RAM'S HEAD AND THE OTHER IS A
17:25 - STEER SIGNIFYING THAT THIS IS
17:27 - IN FACT A
17:28 - FARMER'S MARKET. THE INTERIOR
17:31 - IS VERY AND JUST SAY MISTER OR
17:33 - BEEN ELECTED TO USE WHAT IS
17:35 - CALLED A BARREL TRUSS AND THE
17:38 - BARREL TRUST IS A FREE SPAN
17:40 - COLIN FREE SPACE INSIDE THE
17:42 - MARKET SO UNLIKE THE CENTRAL
17:45 - MARKET WHICH HAS QUITE A FEW
17:46 - COLUMNS TO DEAL WITH ON THE
17:48 - FLOOR SPACE. THE SOUTHERN
17:50 - MARKET IS ABSOLUTELY
17:52 - COLUMN FREE. IT ALSO THE
17:54 - BUILDING TOOK JUST FOR MONTHS
17:58 - TO BUILD. THAT'S INCONCEIVABLE.
18:00 - TODAY BUT THAT'S WHAT IT TOOK
18:02 - BACK IN 1888.
18:06 - AS YOU CAN SEE WE'RE STANDING
18:07 - INSIDE THE SOUTHERN MARKET.
18:09 - AND IT IS GO UNDERGOING A
18:11 - MASSIVE REINVENTION OR ADAPTIVE
18:14 - REUSE AS WE OFTEN SAY.
18:16 - IT STARTED OUT AS A FARMERS
18:18 - MARKET.
18:20 - 1888.
18:20 - AND THEN IN THE 1980'S IT
18:23 - CONVERTED TO A LOCATION FOR
18:26 - LANCASTER CITY COUNCIL TO ME AS
18:28 - WELL AS THE CHAMBER OF
18:29 - COMMERCE.
18:31 - AND THEN MORE RECENTLY IT HAS
18:33 - BEEN RE COMMISSION NOW TO HAVE
18:35 - ITS 3RD LIFE.
18:37 - IT IS NOW GOING TO BE AND
18:39 - INCUBATOR SPACE FOR FOOD HALL.
18:42 - IT'S WHERE ASPIRING YOUNG CHEFS
18:45 - WELCOME TO LEARN THEIR TRADE.
18:48 - COOKERY AND A BRAND-NEW
18:50 - REINVENTED THE COOKING HALL
18:52 - THERE WILL BE 10 INCUBATOR
18:54 - SPACES. THE CHEF WILL HAVE
18:56 - THEIR OWN OPPORTUNITY. THE
18:58 - PRACTICE THERE. THEIR CRAFT SO
19:01 - TO SPEAK. SO WE'RE EXCITED
19:02 - ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THE
19:04 - SOUTHERN MARKET IN THE CENTER
19:05 - OF THE HALL WILL BE A BAR FOR
19:08 - REFRESHMENTS AND ENTERTAINMENT.
19:11 - AND THEN UPSTAIRS WILL BE
19:13 - OFFICE SPACE THAT CAN BE
19:14 - RELEASED. FOR BUSINESS PEOPLE
19:16 - IN THE TOWN.
19:18 - COMMUNITY OF LANCASTER, SO IT'S
19:19 - AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY.
19:21 - THE C ONE OF LANCASTER IS MOST
19:23 - HISTORIC BUILDING. CONTINUING
19:25 - TO LIVE ON WITH A NEW LIFE.
19:30 - LANCASTER WAS FOUNDED IN THE
19:32 - YEAR 1731 OF THE CONTINUING
19:35 - CHALLENGES
19:36 - OF BUILDING IN THE CITY OF THAT
19:39 - AGE IS HOW DO YOU INFUSE A NEW
19:41 - ARCHITECTURE INTO THE EXISTING
19:44 - HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE. BEHIND
19:46 - ME IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF HOW
19:47 - YOU CAN ACTUALLY PULL THAT OFF.
19:50 - THE NEW BUILDING WAS
19:51 - CONSTRUCTED IN THE YEAR.
19:54 - 2019 PRE COVID AND IT IS THE
19:57 - LANCASTER COUNTY CHAMBER OF
19:58 - COMMERCE BUILDING NEXT TO IT
20:01 - DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT.
20:02 - IT IS THE AND HISTORIC
20:07 - 1762 BUILDING CONSTRUCTED
20:09 - IN A LIMESTONE GEORGIAN STYLE.
20:13 - SO YOU HAVE A CONTEMPORARY
20:14 - BUILDING. RIGHT NEXT TO A
20:16 - HISTORIC GEORGIAN BUILDING.
20:17 - WE'RE HAND HARMONY. ONE WAY TO
20:20 - DO THAT IS TO RECOGNIZE THAT
20:22 - ALL STREETSCAPE IT HAS WHAT WE
20:24 - CALL
20:24 - A CERTAIN A PEDESTRIAN KAYDEN'S
20:27 - AND VISUAL KAYDEN'S TO IT MOST
20:30 - OF THE BUILDINGS IN CITIES.
20:31 - WE'RE TYPICALLY, 3040 OR 50
20:34 - FEET IN WIDTH AND IF YOU CAN
20:36 - RESPECT AND
20:37 - MAINTAIN THAT THE CAJUNS ON THE
20:39 - STREETSCAPE IT WILL IN FACT
20:41 - BLEND IN
20:42 - TO FURTHER ACCENTUATE THAT IS
20:44 - TO BEGIN TO CHERRY PICK
20:46 - CERTAIN CALLERS THAT ARE
20:48 - ADJACENT TO OR APPROPRIATE WITH
20:50 - THAT NEW STRUCTURE.
20:51 - SO WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE
20:52 - INTERESTING FOR YOU TO SEE SORT
20:54 - OF HOW YOU CAN INTRODUCED NEW
20:57 - IN WITH THE OLD.
21:00 - CHARLIE WAGNER'S CAFE IS ONE OF
21:02 - THE HIDDEN GEMS THAT YOU OFTEN
21:04 - FIND IN COMMUNITIES, THE SIZE
21:06 - OF LANCASTER.
21:07 - CHARLIE'S CAFE IS
21:09 - LOCATED AT LENNOX LANE AND
21:11 - GRANT STREET IS REALLY TALKED
21:13 - IN AMONG SOME OF THE MORE THE
21:16 - HAYMAN BUILDINGS IN
21:17 - OUR CITY. BUT IT'S CUTE AS A
21:19 - BUTTON IT'S ONLY 24 FEET BY 32
21:22 - FEET AND
21:23 - FLOOR PLATE. 3 STORIES HIGH
21:26 - DESIGNED IN THE YEAR 1892
21:29 - BY ARCHITECT SEATTLE AN URBAN
21:31 - THIS WAS HIS SECOND
21:32 - COMMERCIAL BUILDING AFTER HE
21:34 - DID THE SOUTHERN MARKET.
21:35 - IN THE YEAR, 1888.
21:38 - SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS A
21:40 - ROMANESQUE REVIVAL BUILDING AND
21:42 - IT'S ONE OF THE EARLY
21:44 - EXAMPLES OF A MIXED USE
21:46 - STRUCTURE ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF
21:48 - THIS BUILDING WAS THE CAFE.
21:51 - THE SECOND FLOOR WAS A BILLIONS
21:52 - PARLOR AND THE 3RD OR TOP FLOOR
21:55 - WAS ACTUALLY THE HOTEL. NOW
21:58 - LOOKING AT THE BUILDING MISTER
22:00 - URBAN WAS VERY CLEVER IN HOW HE
22:02 - USED THE OWNERS RESERVES OR HOW
22:04 - USE THE OWNERS MONEY WE MADE
22:06 - THIS BUILDING LOOK A LOT MORE
22:08 - IMPRESSIVE THAT IT ACTUALLY IS
22:11 - THEY CREATED THE ILLUSION OF
22:13 - THIS TOWER ON THE CORNER OF THE
22:15 - BUILDING BY INTRODUCING SPECIAL
22:18 - SHAPE ROUNDED BRICKS. THE
22:20 - CREATE THAT VERTICALITY AND HE
22:22 - TERMINATED THAT WITH A PAIR OF
22:25 - METAL ROOF WITH
22:26 - ROMAN TILE SO IT KIND OF GIVES
22:28 - YOU THE IDEA THAT THIS BUILDING
22:30 - HAS A TURN OR TOWER
22:32 - ONE REALLY IT'S JUST
22:34 - A BOX VERY WELL DONE VERY
22:36 - CLEVER THE ENTRANCE TO THE
22:37 - BUILDING IS LOCATED ON
22:39 - THE CORNER WITH AN INTERESTING
22:41 - BYZANTINE COLUMN AND THE SOFT
22:44 - CAST IRON CAPITAL.
22:46 - SOME OF THE INTERESTING
22:47 - ARCHITECTURAL TERMINOLOGY WE
22:49 - USE WITH THIS BUILDING
22:50 - IS AT THE VERY TOP THAT
22:52 - INTERESTING BRICK SHAPE WITHIN
22:53 - THAT ARCHES CALLED DOGS TO
22:55 - THING.
22:56 - AND ALSO BELOW THAT
22:59 - WE HAVE THAT SPECIAL BRICK
23:01 - PATTERN CALLED DIE PURRING
23:03 - CRISSCROSS OF BRICK
23:05 - SO MISTER BUT WAS ABLE TO
23:06 - INTRODUCE A LOT OF EYE CANDY.
23:09 - THE BUILDING THAT HAD A VERY
23:10 - LIMITED BUDGET.
23:13 - THE YOUNG
23:14 - BRITISH ARCHITECT THAT DESIGN
23:16 - LANCASTER CENTRAL MARKET.
23:18 - AT THE AGE OF 24.
23:20 - THE SIGN IS BEAUTIFUL CHATEAU
23:22 - REST MANSION, THE HYMIE AT THE
23:25 - AGE OF 25.
23:27 - IN THE YEAR
23:28 - 1890, WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT WAS
23:31 - ORIGINALLY THAT KATHRYN LONG
23:33 - THE MANSION DESIGNED BY JAMES
23:36 - AGE WARNER THE YOUNG ARCHITECT
23:38 - WE MENTIONED FROM GREAT
23:39 - BRITAIN.
23:41 - HE DESIGNED THIS IN THE CHATEAU
23:43 - S STYLE FOR KATHRYN LONG TO
23:45 - REPRESENT THE
23:46 - INTERPRETATION OF CASTLES FROM
23:49 - THE LOW WATER VALLEY IN FRANCE.
23:52 - ONE OF THE KEY NOTES OF THESE
23:53 - DESIGN DETAILS ARE THE
23:55 - TERRORISTS AND THE TOWERS AND
23:57 - THE IN THE COMPLICATED
23:59 - ROOF LINES THAT YOU SEE ON
24:01 - THE MANSION. IT IS EXTREMELY
24:03 - WELL DONE IT WAS THE FIRST
24:05 - CHATEAU ASK MANSION IN THE CITY
24:08 - OF LANCASTER AND REMAINS ONE OF
24:10 - THE BEST EXAMPLES WE HAVE IN
24:12 - OUR CITY.
24:15 - CM ON URBAN DESIGN
24:17 - THE SAINT JAMES PARISH HOUSE IN
24:19 - THE YEAR 19 '03. IT
24:21 - REPRESENTS HIS LARGEST EXAMPLE
24:23 - OF GEORGIAN REVIVAL IN HIS
24:25 - PORTFOLIO OF WORK. I
24:27 - PARTICULARLY LIKE IT BECAUSE OF
24:29 - HIS
24:29 - USE OF FLEMISH BOND FLEMISH
24:32 - BOND IS THAT BRICK PATTERN
24:34 - YOU SEE ON THE SIDE OF THE
24:35 - BUILDING THAT HAS SORT OF A
24:36 - SHEEN AND A FLAT AND THAT'S
24:38 - FROM HEADERS
24:39 - AND STRETCHERS AND THE AND THE
24:42 - HEADERS ARE BASICALLY A HARD
24:44 - BAKE BRICK THAT GIVE YOU THAT
24:45 - REFLECTION OF THE SUN. IT
24:47 - CREATED A VERY INTERESTING
24:48 - PATTERN ON THE SIDE OF THE
24:49 - BUILDING. THE OTHER THING THAT
24:51 - MAKES A GEORGIAN REVIVAL IS IS
24:53 - USE OF THE CAST OWN KEYSTONE'S
24:56 - OVER THE WINDOWS THAT'S A GREAT
24:58 - EXAMPLE OF THAT USE ALSO IN THE
25:00 - CORNER OF THE BUILDING. THOSE
25:02 - ARE CALLED CAST OWN
25:03 - THE COINS. IT'S A VERY
25:05 - ATTRACTIVE BUILDING VERY WELL
25:06 - PROPORTION IN TRUE GEORGIAN
25:09 - STYLE. IT IS ALL ABOUT THE
25:11 - SYMMETRY.
25:12 - SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I
25:14 - PARTICULARLY ENJOY IN ADDITION
25:15 - TO THAT IS THIS
25:16 - SPECTACULAR HAND WROUGHT IRON
25:19 - RAILING AND NEWEL POST I'M
25:21 - STANDING AGAINST IT'S WELL DONE
25:24 - AND IT CERTAINLY APPROACHING
25:26 - 120 YEARS OF LIFE.
25:29 - CONGRATULATIONS MISTER ERVIN.
25:31 - LANCASTER CITY HALL WAS
25:33 - ACTUALLY DESIGNED IN THE YEAR
25:35 - 1891 AS A U.S. POST OFFICE BY
25:38 - THE PHILADELPHIA ARCHITECT JOHN
25:40 - WIND ROOM. JOHN HAD A SPECIALTY
25:43 - OF DOING POST OFFICE BUILDINGS.
25:44 - WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT HE
25:47 - ACTUALLY HIRED CM ONE URBAN TO
25:49 - SUPERVISE THE CONSTRUCTION OF
25:52 - THE POST OFFICE IN THAT YEAR
25:54 - 1891.
25:56 - FURTHERMORE, THIS IS A GREAT
25:58 - EXAMPLE OF ANOTHER ADAPTIVE
26:00 - REUSE IN 1930 THE POST OFFICE
26:03 - WAS DECOMMISSIONED AS A POST
26:06 - OFFICE, ANDREE COMMISSION
26:08 - EYES. THE CITY HALL THAT WE
26:10 - HAVE TODAY AND ALSO MISTER
26:12 - SEATTLE AN URBAN.
26:14 - THE OPPORTUNITY. IT BASICALLY
26:16 - BE THE ARCHITECT TO DESIGN
26:18 - THE CONVERSION A POST OFFICE TO
26:20 - CITY HALL.
26:21 - THE STYLE IS QUITE UNUSUAL AND
26:24 - VERY AND TREE.
26:25 - IT'S YET ANOTHER DIFFERENT
26:27 - ARCHITECTURAL STYLES STYLE IN
26:29 - OUR CITY CALLED THE NATION
26:32 - RENAISSANCE AND WHEN YOU LOOK
26:34 - AT THE BEAUTIFUL OPEN AIR
26:35 - BELVEDERE. YOU GET THAT SENSE
26:37 - THAT YOU COULD BE IN
26:38 - VENICE ITALY. IT'S VERY UNUSUAL
26:41 - STYLE FOR THE CITY OF
26:42 - LANCASTER. I DO LIKE IT VERY
26:44 - MUCH THE OTHER
26:45 - FACT IS IN 1993 JULY 11TH AS A
26:50 - MATTER OF FACT OF
26:52 - 1993 THAT COPPER OPEN AIR
26:55 - BELVEDERE WAS STRUCK BY A BOLT
26:57 - OF LIGHTNING AND COMPLETELY
26:59 - BURNED AND DESTROYED. THE GOOD
27:02 - NEWS IS WE STILL HAVE THE
27:04 - ORIGINAL DRAWINGS FROM
27:06 - JAMES AND WERE ABLE TO RECREATE
27:09 - THAT BELVEDERE THE DETAIL
27:11 - FOR DETAIL BY ARCHITECTURAL
27:13 - FIRM AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
27:15 - IN THIS IN THE STATE OF
27:17 - VERMONT.
27:20 - SO THANK YOU VERY
27:21 - MUCH FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO
27:23 - GIVE YOU A TOUR OF DOWNTOWN
27:26 - LANCASTER. WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED
27:28 - YOUR TIME WITH US AND WE
27:29 - CERTAINLY WELCOME AND ENCOURAGE
27:31 - YOU THEY COME TO OUR CITY AND
27:34 - JOY THE ARCHITECTURE ALONGSIDE
27:36 - OF US.