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Historic Lancaster Architecture, Building PA

(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

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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.


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