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Bethlehem’s Moravian Architecture & SteelStacks, Building PA

(2021) Building Pennsylvania visits Bethlehem's Moravian architecture. An application for World Heritage Site status is pending for the historic district featuring buildings erected in the mid-1700s and early 1800s, and also the modernist civic center and library, and the southside SteelStacks.

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00:35 - >>HELLO

00:35 - >>MY NAME IS CHARLENE HOURS,

00:37 - I'M THE PRESIDENT OF HISTORIC

00:39 - BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS IN SIGHT.

00:41 - WELCOME TO THE CITY OF

00:42 - BETHLEHEM HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA.

00:44 - WE ARE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF

00:46 - THE COLONIAL INDUSTRIAL QUARTER

00:49 - FOR HIM WAS FOUNDED IN 1741 AND

00:52 - BY 17

00:53 - 47, THERE WERE 35 CRAFTS

00:57 - TRADE-IN INDUSTRIES OPERATING

00:59 - HERE IT WAS A VERY BUSY PLACE

01:02 - AS YOU CAN IMAGINE,

01:04 - AND IT IS CONSIDERED AMERICA'S

01:06 - EARLIEST INDUSTRIAL PARK

01:08 - BECAUSE OF THE LARGEST

01:10 - CONCENTRATION OF PRE INDUSTRIAL

01:12 - REVOLUTION TRADES

01:13 - BEHIND ME IS THE

01:14 - 17TH 62 WATERWORKS AMERICA'S

01:18 - FIRST COME TO MUNICIPAL WATER

01:20 - SYSTEM. SO JOIN ME AS WE VISIT

01:22 - HISTORIC MORAVIAN BETHLEHEM

01:25 - AND ALSO SEE HOW BETHLEHEM OF

01:27 - ALL TO THE 21ST CENTURY.

01:31 - >>YOU'RE RECOGNIZED THAT

01:32 - THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE 1762

01:35 - WEATHER WORKS BRING BACK THE

01:37 - PATTERN DOORS. BRICK EYEBROWS

01:40 - OVER THE WINDOWS. THE

01:43 - TILE ROOF BUT THIS BUILDING WAS

01:45 - ACTUALLY AN ENGINEERING MARVEL.

01:48 - THERE WAS INSIDE THIS SIGNED BY

01:51 - HANS CHRISTOPH CHRISTENSEN A

01:53 - WATER PUMPING SYSTEM THAT

01:56 - PUMPED SPRING WATER OVER

01:58 - 90 VERTICAL FEET TO A TOWER

02:01 - THAT STOOD WHERE CENTRAL

02:02 - MORAVIAN CHURCH

02:03 - STANDS TODAY AND BY GRAVITY FED

02:06 - WATER TO 5 LOCATIONS ON THE

02:08 - HILLSIDE. IT WAS AMAZING.

02:11 - IT'S SIMPLY USE THE RUN-UP TO

02:12 - KNOCK A

02:13 - C CREEK TO TURN AN 18 FOOT

02:15 - DIAMETER WHAT ARE WE ALL TO ACT

02:18 - AS THE PUMPING MECHANISM.

02:20 - SO HERE IN BETHLEHEM IN

02:22 - 1762. THERE WAS IN ESSENCE A

02:25 - TYPE OF RUNNING WATER. THIS WAS

02:27 - 30 YEARS

02:28 - BEFORE PHILADELPHIA. MANY YEARS

02:30 - BEFORE NEW YORK OR BOSTON, A

02:32 - PUMP MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM.

02:35 - THE VERY FIRST HERE IN THIS

02:37 - COUNTRY. IT

02:38 - IS ALSO AND NATIONAL

02:40 - HISTORIC LANDMARK CIVIL

02:42 - ENGINEERING LANDMARK AN

02:44 - AMERICAN WOULD OR LANDMARK.

02:47 - PART OF OUR HISTORIC MORAVIAN

02:49 - BETHLEHEM NATIONAL HISTORIC

02:50 - LANDMARK DISTRICT.

02:52 - IF YOU RECOGNIZE

02:54 - THIS 1761 CANNERY NOT FOR A 10

02:57 - OR A BIKE FOR ITS ARCHITECTURAL

02:59 - STYLE. ONCE AGAIN IT IS A

03:02 - STONE BUILDING WITH HERRINGBONE

03:04 - PATTERN DOORS AT A CLAY TILE

03:07 - ROOF. THIS

03:08 - BUILDING WAS ERECTED IN

03:10 - 1761 AND IT IS THE ONLY

03:13 - MORAVIAN

03:14 - INDUSTRIAL BUILDING FROM THAT

03:16 - TIME PERIOD STILL IN EXISTENCE

03:18 - IN THE ENTIRE WORLD ISN'T THAT

03:20 - INCREDIBLE RIGHT HERE ALONG THE

03:22 - KASIE CREEK AND DOWNTOWN

03:23 - BETHLEHEM. IT WAS SHOES TO TAN

03:26 - LEATHER AND RIGHT NEXT TO IT

03:28 - JUST NORTH OF IT ARE THE

03:30 - REMAINS OF THE BUTCHERY.

03:31 - SO REAGANS WERE. BUT DURING

03:35 - THE CATTLE AND THEN MAKING

03:37 - LEATHER GOODS IN THE TANNERY IN

03:40 - FOR RIGHT THERE IN THE DISTANCE

03:41 - IS THE

03:42 - 1869 LUCKENBACH MILL. THERE WAS

03:45 - A GRIST MILL ON THAT SITE IN

03:47 - THE

03:48 - 1750'S IT BURNED DOWN IN 1769

03:52 - AND WITH QUICKLY REBUILT BY THE

03:54 - LUCKENBACH FAMILY

03:56 - AND IT REMAINED A GRIST MILL

03:58 - JUST ABOUT TO THE 1940'S WHEN

04:01 - THIS AREA HAD A TERRIBLE WENT

04:04 - TERRIBLY DOWNHILL. AND BECAME

04:06 - A JUNKYARD AND OVER TIME.

04:09 - THE AREA WAS RECLAIMED.

04:11 - >>AND IT IS NOW A BEAUTIFUL

04:14 - SIGHT HERE IN

04:15 - DOWNTOWN BETHLEHEM. A PEACEFUL

04:18 - PLACE ALLOWING THEM NOT TO SEE

04:19 - CREEK. AND ALSO A VERY HISTORIC

04:22 - SITE THAT IS PART OF HISTORIC

04:23 - RAPE IN BETHLEHEM.

04:25 - >>A HISTORIC RATE IN BETHLEHEM

04:27 - HAS BEEN SHORTLISTED

04:28 - HER NOMINATION TO THE WORLD

04:30 - HERITAGE LIST WHICH IS AN

04:31 - INCREDIBLE HONOR THAT WE EXPECT

04:34 - TO HAPPEN HOPE TO HAPPEN OVER

04:36 - THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS.

04:38 - IN THE DISTANCE YOU CAN SEE THE

04:40 - RUINS OF ANOTHER BUILDING

04:42 - ANOTHER STRONG RAPE IN

04:44 - BUILDING. IT WAS THE DYE HOUSE

04:46 - D Y E THE MORAVIANS PRODUCED

04:50 - HUGE AMOUNTS. CLOCK THEY WERE

04:52 - SPINNING AND WEAVING

04:54 - LYNN IN WALL AND SOMETHING

04:56 - CALLED LINDSEY WILL SEE AND IN

04:58 - THE DYE HOUSE, THEY WERE USING

05:00 - NATURAL MATERIALS

05:01 - TO DIE THE CLOTH INTO VARIOUS

05:04 - COLORS. ALSO ON

05:06 - THIS SITE IS A SMALL WOODEN

05:08 - STRUCTURE THAT LOOKS VERY MUCH

05:10 - LIKE.

05:12 - LOG CABIN, IT'S NOT A LOT OF

05:15 - CABIN. IT'S A SPRING HOUSE

05:17 - HERE IN THIS AREA WAS A VERY

05:20 - PRODIGIOUS SPRING THAT PROVIDED

05:22 - OVER A MILLION GALLONS OF WATER

05:24 - A DAY TO THE COMMUNITY.

05:26 - >>AND THAT'S THE WHAT IS THAT

05:27 - WAS PUMPED BY THE WATER WORKS.

05:30 - WE ARE NOW IN THE HEART OF

05:31 - HISTORIC MORAVIAN BETHLEHEM AND

05:33 - NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK

05:35 - DISTRICT.

05:36 - >>ONE OF ONLY 8 SUCH DISTRICTS

05:38 - IN THE COMMONWEALTH

05:39 - OF PENNSYLVANIA. AND HERE I AM

05:41 - STANDING IN FRONT OF THE SINGLE

05:44 - SISTER'S HOUSE,

05:45 - THE SECTION RIGHT BEHIND ME WAS

05:47 - BUILT IN 1744. AND THEN TO

05:51 - MY LEFT IS THE NEW WING

05:54 - 1772.

05:55 - PARTS OF THIS COMPLEX ARE

05:57 - ACTUALLY STILL

05:58 - LIVED IN AND ARE USED AS IT

06:01 - THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN WHEN THIS

06:03 - COMMUNITY WAS FOUNDED IN THE

06:05 - 17TH 40'S. IT'S JUST AN AMAZING

06:08 - REPRESENTATION OF THE STYLE AND

06:10 - DESIGN THAT THE MORAVIANS

06:12 - BROUGHT WITH THEM FROM CENTRAL

06:14 - EUROPE.

06:15 - >>WHEN I BRING VISITORS HERE TO

06:16 - BETH LAMB, WE CAN'T HELP BUT

06:18 - DRIVE DOWN THIS STREET. IT'S A

06:20 - VERY INCREDIBLY CHARMING

06:23 - DISTRICT HERE AND WHEN YOU

06:25 - THINK ABOUT TODAY SOCIETAL

06:26 - ISSUES. THE MORAVIANS WERE

06:28 - DEALING WITH THOSE ISSUES AND

06:30 - SOLVING

06:30 - THOSE ISSUES. NEARLY 300 YEARS

06:32 - AGO HERE IN IN TERMS

06:34 - OF SUSTAINABILITY AND

06:35 - INCLUSIVENESS THEY WERE VERY

06:37 - INCLUSIVE. A GROUP.

06:39 - AND SUSTAINABILITY EVERYTHING

06:42 - WAS MADE HERE RIGHT

06:44 - ON SITE, THIS WAS A PLACE FOR

06:46 - EDUCATION FOR RELIGION

06:48 - FOR INDUSTRY. AND IF YOU LOOK

06:50 - AT THESE BUILDINGS CLOSELY.

06:52 - THEY WERE MADE WITH RESOLVE

06:54 - AND PURPOSE. NOT NECESSARILY

06:56 - ORNAMENTAL BUT. MORE ABOUT

06:59 - THE MATERIAL A T. AND

07:02 - ELEGANT PROPORTIONS. THESE

07:04 - BUILDINGS OBVIOUSLY ARE HAVE

07:05 - BEEN WELL TAKEN CARE OF IN AND

07:07 - THEY ARE AN EXCEPTIONAL EXAMPLE

07:09 - OF MORAVIAN ARCHITECTURE IN

07:11 - NORTH AMERICA. IF YOU LOOK AT

07:12 - SOME OF THE DETAILING OF THE

07:14 - STONE WILL SEE SOME SOME

07:15 - RIBBON POINTING SOME MORE

07:18 - RUBBLE AND SHINGLE POINTING.

07:20 - THE BRICK WAS ACTUALLY FIRED

07:22 - HERE NEARBY ON THE SITE AND

07:24 - BECAME THE STRUCTURE FOR THE

07:25 - ARCHES ABOVE THE WINDOW

07:26 - OPENINGS. TIMBER WAS USED AS

07:29 - WELL AND IT WAS READILY

07:30 - AVAILABLE HERE. THE MORAVIAN

07:32 - SHOES WHITE OAK

07:33 - TIMBERS. AND OF COURSE THE

07:35 - DETAILING OF THE DOORS. THE

07:37 - HERRINGBONE TRADITIONAL DOORS

07:40 - AND THE THE HARDWARE THAT WAS

07:42 - USED EACH HARDWARE SET IS

07:45 - UNIQUELY DIFFERENT FROM ONE

07:47 - ANOTHER EACH EACH YEAR PAEAN

07:49 - ARTISAN BROUGHT WITH THEM THEIR

07:51 - PARTICULAR STYLE AND THEY DID

07:54 - THAT DID USED THERE.

07:57 - STYLE AND IN CRAFTING

07:59 - THE HARDWARE.

08:01 - >>WE ARE NOW STANDING INSIDE

08:03 - THE 1752 WING OF THE SINGLE

08:06 - SISTER'S HOUSE BY THE NAME YOU

08:08 - CAN TELL

08:09 - SINGLE WOMEN LIVED HERE AND

08:11 - THEY ACTUALLY LIVED HERE FROM

08:13 - 1772 UNTIL ABOUT 2007. SO LOOK

08:19 - AT THIS PACE. THIS IS WHAT IT

08:21 - WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE TO LIVE

08:23 - HERE ALL THIS MANY YEARS AGO

08:25 - EVEN TO MOST RECENT TIMES.

08:29 - IN THE DISTANCE BEHIND

08:31 - ME WAS THE SINGLE SISTERS AND

08:33 - DINING ROOM WHERE THEY WOULD

08:34 - ALL GATHER TOGETHER THEY WERE

08:35 - COMMUNAL KITCHENS.

08:38 - THEY WOULD ALL GATHER TOGETHER

08:39 - FOR MEALS AT

08:41 - ONE POINT THERE WERE WELL OVER

08:43 - 50 WOMEN

08:45 - WHO LIVED IN THIS SECTION OF

08:48 - THE BUILDING.

08:49 - THIS IS THE 1741 TO MY HOUSE,

08:52 - IT IS THE OLDEST BUILDING IN

08:54 - BETHLEHEM.

08:55 - AND IT ISN'T INDIVIDUALLY

08:57 - LISTED NATIONAL HISTORIC

08:59 - LANDMARK. THIS IS A FASCINATING

09:02 - STRUCTURE. IT'S ACTUALLY 5

09:04 - LEVELS HIGH 30 FEET WIDE AND

09:07 - APPROXIMATELY 90 FEET LONG AND

09:10 - IT'S MADE OF WHITE

09:11 - OAK TIMBER. AND YOU WOULDN'T

09:13 - KNOW IT, BUT IT IS A LOT OF

09:17 - STRUCTURE. IT IS BELIEVED TO BE

09:19 - THE LARGEST BLOCK STRUCTURE

09:21 - FROM THE 1700'S IN EXISTENCE IN

09:23 - THE UNITED STATES

09:25 - THAT IS STILL IN USE TODAY IT

09:27 - HAS NEVER BEEN EMPTY. IT WAS

09:29 - LIFTED UNTIL THE

09:31 - 1960'S WHEN IT BECAME HOME TO

09:33 - THE MORAVIAN YOU OF BETHLEHEM

09:35 - AND WE'RE DELIGHTED TO SHARE IT

09:37 - WITH THE VISITING PUBLIC.

09:39 - >>THE ORIGINAL ROOFS ON THE

09:40 - STRUCTURES WERE MANUFACTURED

09:42 - FROM A HEAVY CLAY TILE

09:44 - THE CLAY TILE WAS MANUFACTURED

09:46 - AND FIRE RIGHT HERE JUST A

09:48 - BLOCK AWAY. AND THE MORAVIANS

09:50 - COMPENSATED FOR THE WEIGHT OF

09:52 - THOSE ROOFS. BY THE BUTTRESSES

09:54 - YOU SEE WHICH KEPT

09:56 - THE WALLS FROM

09:57 - SPLAINE OUT THEY ROUGE WHERE

09:59 - THEN VENT EVENTUALLY REPLACED

10:01 - WITH SLATE TO LIGHTEN THAT

10:02 - LOAD.

10:04 - >>WE'RE STANDING INSIDE CENTRE

10:06 - MORAVIAN CHURCH. THIS SANCTUARY

10:08 - WAS ERECTED BETWEEN 18 O

10:11 - 3.18 '06. A COST OF

10:14 - ABOUT $50,000 IT WAS ORIGINALLY

10:17 - THOUGHT TO COST 11,000. AND AS

10:20 - YOU CAN TELL THEY WENT A BIT

10:21 - OVER BUDGET. BUT CAN YOU

10:23 - IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE

10:24 - TO BUILD THE STRUCTURE TODAY.

10:26 - THERE ARE NO INTERIOR COLUMNS

10:29 - IN THIS SANCTUARY

10:30 - AND THIS WAS BELIEVED TO BE THE

10:33 - LARGEST BUILDING IN THE

10:34 - COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,

10:36 - ONE IT WAS CONSTRUCTED WITHOUT

10:38 - INTERIOR COLUMNS HOLDING UP

10:40 - THE BELFRY THAT IS OVER TOP THE

10:43 - ROOF.

10:44 - >>WE'RE IN THE CERTAIN CENTRAL

10:45 - MORAVIAN CHURCH

10:46 - RIGHT NOW AND THIS COMPLEX IS

10:49 - AT THE HEART OF THE

10:51 - MORAVIAN VILLAGE AND WE'RE IN A

10:54 - COLUMN FREE SPACE. YOU'LL

10:56 - NOTICE FROM THE OUTSIDE THE

10:58 - BELL TOWER. A VERY ICONIC

11:00 - SYMBOL THAT YOU SEE THROUGHOUT

11:02 - THE CITY. IT'S SUPPORTED BY A

11:05 - SERIES OF TIMBER TRUSSES THAT

11:07 - WERE MANUFACTURED RIGHT HERE

11:09 - AND JOINED RIGHT HERE. AND AND

11:12 - ENABLES US SPACE TO BE COLUMN

11:14 - FREE.

11:16 - >>WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE BELFRY

11:18 - OF

11:18 - CENTRAL MORAVIAN YOU'LL NOTICE

11:20 - THAT THERE IS AN OPERATING TOWN

11:22 - CLOCK THAT CLOCK

11:24 - WAS MADE AND 1747 AND WAS

11:28 - ORIGINALLY AND THE BELFRY OF

11:31 - THE BELL HOUSE

11:32 - IT WAS MOVED HERE THE CENTRAL

11:33 - CHURCH AFTER CENTRAL CHURCH WAS

11:35 - COMPLETED. AND IT IS BELIEVED

11:37 - TO BE THE OLDEST OPERATING TOWN

11:39 - O'CLOCK IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.

11:42 - AND TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF

11:44 - SCALE OF THE BELFRY THE WEATHER

11:46 - VANE FROM THE VERY TOP, IT IS

11:48 - 8 FEET LONG AND THE

11:51 - GOLD BALL. ALSO ON THE WEATHER

11:53 - VANE IT'S ABOUT 4 FEET

11:55 - IN DIAMETER SO FROM THE GROUND

11:58 - THEY LOOK VERY SMALL, BUT THEY

11:59 - ARE VERY VERY LARGE WHEN THEY

12:01 - ARE WHEN YOU ACTUALLY MEASURE

12:03 - THEM OUT. THIS IS A A WONDERFUL

12:05 - STRUCTURE. IT IS AN AMERICAN

12:07 - MUSIC LANDMARK BECAUSE IT WAS

12:10 - THE LOCATION OF THE VERY FIRST

12:12 - COMPLETE PERFORMANCE, A BOX

12:15 - MASS IN B MINOR IN THE EARLY

12:18 - 1900'S.

12:21 - >>AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE

12:22 - INDUSTRIAL CORRIDORS HERE AT

12:23 - THE MORAVIAN VILLAGE AND

12:25 - LITERALLY EVERYTHING WAS MADE

12:27 - HERE ALL THEIR GOODS WERE MADE

12:28 - HERE HERE YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE

12:30 - BLACKSMITH SHOP SAID THIS AREA

12:33 - OF BETHLEHEM WAS ACTUALLY

12:34 - THE HUB. WHICH ALSO FED OTHER

12:37 - MORAVIAN COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT

12:39 - THE UNITED STATES. HERE THE

12:41 - BLACKSMITH'S SHOP OF ANOTHER A

12:42 - GREAT EXAMPLE OF SOME OF THE

12:44 - HARDWARE HERE A HALLMARK TO

12:46 - MORAVIAN ARCHITECTURE. YOU KNOW

12:47 - TO SET EACH A DOOR HANDLE IS

12:50 - SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FROM ONE

12:52 - ANOTHER THAT EACH CRAFTS PERSON

12:54 - HAD THEIR PARTICULAR ART AND

12:57 - PERSONALITY BROUGHT INTO THE

12:58 - WORK. HERE'S THE CLASSIC A

13:01 - HERRINGBONE DOOR WHICH IS

13:02 - PREVALENT THROUGHOUT THE

13:03 - MORAVIAN BUILDINGS AND THE

13:05 - STONE WAS COREY RIGHT HERE.

13:08 - THE RIBBON POINTING DRESSES UP

13:10 - THE FRONT FACADE. AND YOU

13:11 - NOTICE THE CLAY TILE ROOF AND

13:13 - THE BRICK WHICH WAS ALL

13:14 - MANUFACTURED HERE. THE BRICK

13:15 - CREATED THE ARCH THE STRUCTURE

13:17 - OVER THE WINDOW OPENINGS

13:18 - AND THAT CLAY WAS MANUFACTURE

13:21 - RIGHT ACROSS THE WAY AT THAT

13:22 - REMNANT THERE WHICH WAS PART OF

13:25 - THE CLAIM POTTERY WORKS.

13:28 - TODAY WE CALL THIS THE

13:29 - BLACKSMITH'S SHOP.

13:31 - >>BUT IN THE PERIOD IN THE

13:33 - 1700'S IT WAS ACTUALLY ALL THE

13:35 - METAL TRADES THERE WAS A 10

13:38 - SMITH, AND THEY ALL SMITH, A

13:40 - LOCKSMITH A PEWTER IN ADDITION

13:43 - TO

13:43 - A BLACKSMITH AND A GUN MAKER

13:46 - ALL OPERATING OUT OF

13:47 - THIS BUILDING. AND IF YOU CAN

13:49 - LOOK AROUND MAYHEW SEE ALL

13:51 - THE WINDOWS. THIS WAS THE SIDE

13:53 - OF THE SHOP WHERE THEY MADE

13:55 - SMALL MATERIALS WHEN YOU THINK

13:57 - ABOUT A LOCK LOCK HAS LOTS OF

14:00 - LITTLE PIECES AND SO FOR THE

14:02 - FORAGE FOR HEATING UP THE

14:03 - PIECES FOR THE LOCK. THIS WAS A

14:05 - SMALL FORWARD. THE 10 SMITH

14:08 - WAS USING SNIFFERS

14:10 - TO CUT PIECES OF 10 AND THEN

14:12 - FORM IT INTO VARIOUS OBJECTS

14:15 - THAT WERE USED ON A

14:16 - DAILY BASIS. SO IF THEY HAVE TO

14:18 - HAVE A LOT OF NATURAL LIGHT

14:20 - REMEMBER THIS WAS BEFORE THE

14:22 - TIME OF ELECTRICITY.

14:24 - SO OUTSIDE LIKE COMING INTO

14:27 - THESE WINDOWS WAS EXTREMELY

14:29 - IMPORTANT.

14:31 - THIS SIDE OF A

14:32 - BLACKSMITH BUILDING IS A VERY

14:35 - DARK YOU'LL NOTICE. THE SIZE OF

14:37 - THE FORD IS MUCH BIGGER THAN

14:39 - THE FORGE ON THE OTHER SIDE AND

14:41 - IT ONLY HAS

14:42 - 2 WINDOWS. THE BLACKSMITH'S

14:44 - BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO

14:46 - REGULATE THE TEMPERATURE BY

14:48 - USING

14:48 - A DIAL. THEY HAD TO BE ABLE TO

14:51 - SEE THE COLOR OF THE FLAMES TO

14:54 - UNDERSTAND HOW RIGHT OR HOW

14:56 - BLUE IT WAS

14:57 - SO THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO

14:59 - MAKE THE I HEAR THAT THEY WERE

15:01 - WORKING

15:01 - WITH MALLEABLE AND THEY HAD

15:04 - ONLY MADE HER SHOES BUT THEY

15:05 - MADE

15:06 - BEAUTIFUL PIECES HOLDING HERE

15:08 - IN MY HAND, I'M HOLDING A RAM'S

15:11 - HORN HINGE ISN'T IT BEAUTIFUL.

15:13 - IT'S A WONDERFUL DESIGN THAT IS

15:15 - STILL USED

15:16 - AND SOME OF HER BUILDING SET WE

15:18 - LOOKED AT EARLIER TODAY.

15:20 - SO 2 BLACKSMITHS WORKING

15:22 - EVERY DAY TO PRODUCE THE GOODS

15:25 - THAT WERE NEEDED FOR

15:26 - THE COMMUNITY FROM TOOLS THAT

15:28 - WE NEEDED IN THE VARIOUS

15:30 - INDUSTRIES HERE IN BETHLEHEM.

15:31 - 2 TOOLS THAT WE NEEDED BY

15:33 - FARMERS TO COOKING UTENSILS

15:35 - USED BY THE WOMEN IN THE

15:37 - KITCHENS.

15:40 - >>SO WE'VE TAKING YOU THROUGH

15:41 - SOME INCREDIBLE HISTORY OF

15:42 - BETHLEHEM AND YOU'VE LOOKED AT

15:44 - SOME ARCHITECTURE OVER NEARLY A

15:45 - 300 YEAR SPAN HERE I STAND AT

15:48 - THE HOOVER MASON

15:49 - TRESSEL AT THE HEART OF

15:51 - BETHLEHEM STEEL PROPERTY BACK

15:52 - FORMER BETHLEHEM STEEL WAS

15:54 - LITERALLY 5 MILES OF CREATING

15:56 - INDUSTRY. IT HAS SINCE BEEN

15:58 - REPURPOSE SINCE BETHLEHEM.

16:00 - ROLL THAT SLASH SHAPE IN 1996.

16:03 - SO WE'RE COMING FULL CIRCLE NOW

16:05 - MUCH LIKE WITH THE MORAVIANS

16:06 - DID ON THE NORTH SIDE.

16:08 - THAT SAME THING IS HAPPENING

16:09 - HERE WHERE IT IS BECOMING A

16:10 - SELF-SUFFICIENT COMMUNITY.

16:13 - WE HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE WORK

16:16 - AND CLAY. SOON WE'LL HAVE

16:18 - HOUSING AND THAT WILL ROUND OUT

16:20 - THE ENTIRE CAMPUS. BUT

16:22 - RIGHT NOW WHERE CULTURAL ARTS

16:24 - DESTINATION. IT'S ANCHORED BY

16:26 - ARTSQUEST THE

16:27 - ARTSQUEST CENTER AND OVER MY

16:30 - SHOULDER YOU'RE SEEING THE

16:31 - LEVITT PAVILION I REMEMBER AS A

16:34 - KID.

16:35 - HOOVER MASON TRESSEL HAS AN

16:37 - ACTIVE WORKING A PIECE OF

16:38 - MACHINERY WHERE THE OR BRIDGES

16:41 - WOULD CARRY ARLO THE YOUR CARS

16:44 - AND THE CORE CARS WOULD COME

16:45 - DOWN OVER THE TRESTLE AND FEED

16:48 - THE FURNACES OKAY AND THIS WAS

16:50 - A 24 7 OPERATION TODAY, THE

16:52 - STRESSES REPURPOSE IT'S A

16:54 - DELICATE LAYER OF WALKING PATH

16:57 - AND SELF-GUIDED HISTORY MUSEUM

16:59 - ON THE MAKING OF STEEL.

17:01 - I REMEMBER AS A KID SEEING THE

17:03 - FURNACE IS AN OPERATION THAT

17:04 - WAS AN INCREDIBLE SIGHT,

17:06 - THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF

17:07 - STEELMAKING 24 7.

17:10 - I RECALL WHITE PUFFS OF

17:13 - OF SMOKE. AND BLUE FLAMES

17:15 - EMITTING FROM THE BOUT BLAST

17:16 - FURNACES.

17:20 - THESE BLAST FURNACES

17:21 - ARE ALIVE WITH ARTS AND

17:22 - ILLUMINATION OF THE SOUND OF

17:24 - MUSIC. I REMEMBER ON THE NORTH

17:26 - SIDE. THE STEEL PLANT TYPICALLY

17:28 - PAINTED THE NORTH SIDE OF

17:31 - THE FURNACES AND THE SOUTH SIDE

17:33 - WAS LEFT A KIND AND ITS STATE

17:35 - THAT YOU SEE NOW.

17:37 - BUT TODAY IT'S THE OPPOSITE

17:38 - HERE AND NOW THE SOUTH SIDE

17:40 - IS ILLUMINATED WITH A WONDERFUL

17:42 - DISPLAY OF ART

17:44 - AND LIGHTING. AND THE NORTH

17:46 - SIDE IS NOW A GUN. A LITTLE BIT

17:49 - LESS ARTICULATE IT.

17:52 - THE CITY DID A GREAT JOB OF

17:53 - PRESERVING THE

17:54 - BLAST FURNACES AND REALLY IT'S

17:56 - ESSENTIAL THAT WE PRESERVE OUR

17:57 - INDUSTRIAL

17:58 - HERITAGE TODAY. THIS IS OUR

18:00 - ESSENTIALLY ROMAN FORUM OUR OUR

18:02 - ACROPOLIS AND WE NEED TO

18:04 - UNDERSTAND OUR PAST AND THE

18:06 - INDUSTRIAL MIGHT AND THE

18:09 - THINGS THAT BETHLEHEM STEEL

18:10 - MADE HERE. THE WHITE FLINCH

18:13 - BEAM WAS WAS INVENTED HERE AND

18:15 - THAT TOTALLY TRANSFORMED THE

18:17 - WAY WE BUILD IT SHAPED OUR

18:18 - SKYLINES.

18:20 - THIS WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST

18:22 - PUBLICLY HELD BROWNFIELDS IN

18:24 - THE COUNTRY AND THERE'S A GREAT

18:26 - STORY BEHIND THE RECLAMATION OF

18:28 - IT THE CLEANING AND THE

18:29 - REPURPOSING OF THIS THIS GREAT

18:31 - SITE.

18:32 - OVER MY SHOULDER TO THE LEFT

18:34 - YOU SEE THE ARTSQUEST CENTER.

18:36 - AND THE ARTSQUEST CENTER AN

18:39 - INCREDIBLE MUSIC BOX WHERE ARTS

18:41 - AND ENTERTAINMENT COME

18:43 - TOGETHER 5 PERFORMANCES COULD

18:44 - HAPPEN IN THAT BUILDING ALL AT

18:46 - ONCE JUST BEYOND THAT IS THE

18:48 - PBS CENTER PBS HEADQUARTERS

18:52 - THEY HAVE THEIR STUDIO AND

18:54 - OFFICES. FURTHER DOWN THE SITE

18:57 - TO

18:57 - THE EAST. YOU HAVE VARIOUS

19:00 - INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING

19:01 - LIGHT MANUFACTURING AS WELL AS

19:04 - E-COMMERCE SUPPORT.

19:09 - OFFICE INCUBATORS IF THE SITE

19:12 - IS VIBRANT WITH ITS NEW USE.

19:16 - RIGHT NOW I'M STANDING ON THE

19:17 - PAYROLL PLAZA AT BETHLEHEM

19:19 - CIVIC CENTER.

19:20 - >>THIS HOUSE THE CITY'S

19:22 - GOVERNMENT AND LIBRARY.

19:25 - >>BELOW

19:27 - PLAZA.

19:28 - >>IS DISCREET PARKING INNER

19:30 - WORKINGS OF THE THE CIVIC

19:32 - CENTER. THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE

19:35 - OF LATE MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE.

19:38 - AND

19:39 - IT WAS CONCEIVED IN THE 60'S

19:41 - BUILT IN THE LATE 60'S. AT A

19:43 - TIME WHERE MANY CIVIC

19:45 - STRUCTURES WERE BEING

19:48 - THROUGHOUT OUR COUNTRY AND THIS

19:50 - ONE WAS AROUND THE SAME TIME OR

19:54 - IN DESIGN AROUND THE SAME TIME

19:55 - WE'RE BOSTON CITY HALL WAS

19:58 - BEING. CONCEIVE.

20:01 - THERE'S SOME SIMILARITIES HERE

20:03 - TO THAT CITY HALL BUT

20:04 - THERE'S ALSO I'M MUCH MORE OF A

20:06 - HUMANE PLANNING EFFORT HERE

20:08 - THAT I WANT TO DESCRIBE TO YOU

20:09 - TODAY. SO IF YOU LOOK AT AT

20:11 - SOME OF THE WAY THAT THE

20:12 - BUILDINGS. R R

20:14 - SITUATED. MANY OF THE PROGRAM

20:17 - ELEMENTS WERE PULLED APART TO

20:19 - GIVE IT A MORE HUMAN SCALE.

20:22 - BEHIND ME IS IS THE ONE OF THE

20:24 - MOST PUBLIC BUILDINGS. THIS IS

20:26 - WHERE ALL THAT THE CHAMBER

20:27 - MEETINGS HAPPEN AND

20:29 - THE PUBLIC ZONES OF THE

20:31 - BUILDING ARE DEFINED BY LOTS OF

20:33 - GLASS AND AS THE BUILDING MOVES

20:35 - UP AND BECOMES MORE PRIVATE AND

20:38 - THE WINDOWS ARE ARE SITUATED.

20:41 - FOR THAT. IT'S

20:43 - GOT THIS. THIS IS VERY

20:46 - DELICATE BASE TO IT WHERE

20:49 - THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO COME

20:52 - IN THE BUILDING IS SITUATED ON

20:54 - A PLAN.

20:57 - HAS THIS WELCOMING

20:58 - GESTURE LINKING BOTH SOUTHSIDE

21:00 - AND NORTH SIDE OF

21:02 - THE TOWN. THE PLANT IS

21:05 - MADE OF OF THE REBEL STONE

21:07 - QUARRIED HERE MUCH OF

21:10 - THE OTHER BUILDING MATERIAL IS

21:12 - IS CUT GRANITE.

21:14 - THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE

21:15 - COMPLEXES IN THE CITY OF

21:16 - BETHLEHEM. AND IT'S STILL

21:19 - RELEVANT TODAY. I RECALL SOME

21:22 - OF THE EARLIER VERSIONS OF

21:24 - CITY HALL, WHERE THEY WERE

21:25 - TAKING HISTORIC USE. AND THIS

21:28 - ONE WENT BEYOND THE

21:30 - HISTORIC USE TO HAVE MORE

21:33 - TIMELESS MODERN US FEEL AND IT

21:35 - REALLY HOLDS ITSELF. WELL TO

21:38 - THE TO THE HISTORIC STRUCTURES

21:40 - AROUND AND BECOMES A

21:42 - SIGNIFICANT PART OF OUR HISTORY

21:44 - AS WELL.

21:45 - SO HERE I AM STANDING AT THE

21:48 - EDGE OF THE THE LIBRARY COMPLEX

21:50 - ONE OF THE MOST

21:51 - PUBLIC PLACES ON ON THE THE

21:54 - CAMPUS HERE. AND WHEN BETHLEHEM

21:57 - STEEL WAS INVOLVED WITH SOME OF

21:58 - THE

21:58 - PLANNING HERE. YOU YOU SEE NO

22:01 - DOUBT THAT STEELE WAS

22:02 - MANUFACTURED HERE. AND YOU SEE

22:04 - THAT IN IN THE TYPES OF STEEL

22:06 - AND THE INNOVATION AND THE

22:08 - STEEL STRUCTURE. HERE ARE THE

22:10 - COLUMNS ARE MUCH LIKE A A

22:13 - FLOWER THAT JUST KIND OF

22:14 - BLOSSOMS TO SUPPORT THE ROOF, A

22:17 - SERIES OF TEA ELEMENTS

22:19 - COMPOSITE TOGETHER TO CREATE

22:21 - THIS BEAUTIFUL STRUCTURAL

22:22 - ELEMENT. THIS BUILDING REMINDS

22:24 - ME OF A VERY DELICATE

22:25 - JAPANESE PAVILION AND REALLY

22:28 - ANCHORS THE WEST END OF THE

22:30 - CLOSET.

22:34 - >>WE'RE STANDING RIGHT IN

22:35 - THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY

22:37 - CENTRE PLAZA AND IN ADDITION TO

22:40 - THE

22:40 - FASCINATING ARCHITECTURE.

22:42 - THERE THIS IS AND REALITY A

22:44 - SCULPTURE GARDEN AND YOU SEE A

22:46 - LARGE SCULPTURE RIGHT BEHIND

22:48 - ME, IT'S CALLED THE SYMBOL OF

22:50 - PROGRESS AND IT IS VERY

22:52 - INTERESTING BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY

22:55 - IS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE FACT

22:57 - THAT THE 3 PARTS OF THE CITY OF

22:59 - BETHLEHEM

23:00 - CAME TOGETHER IN 1919 A

23:04 - UNIFICATION OF NORTH BETHLEHEM

23:06 - SOUTH BETHLEHEM AND WEST

23:08 - BETHLEHEM. SO WHEN YOU'RE

23:09 - WALKING AROUND CITY HALL PLAZA.

23:12 - PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU CHECK OUT

23:14 - ALL THE SCULPTURES ON THE SITE.

23:23 - >>FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT

23:25 - HISTORIC BETHLEHEM. PLEASE

23:27 - VISIT OUR WEBSITE WWW DOT

23:30 - HISTORIC BETHLEHEM DOT ORG OR

23:33 - CALL US AT 1 800

23:34 - 3, YOU ARE 1, 8,

23:38 - 103 TOUR. WE PROVIDE

23:40 - TOURS OF MANY OF THE SITES

23:42 - THAT YOU'RE SEEING TODAY IN

23:44 - THIS SHOW AND WE HOPE YOU'LL

23:46 - COME AND VISIT US ANY TIME OF

23:47 - YEAR WE'D LOVE TO SEE YOU IN

23:49 - BETHLEHEM.

24:01 - >>NEXT SUNDAY ON

24:02 - BUILDING PENNSYLVANIA, AND HERE

24:04 - IS A GREEN ROOF, THAT'S

24:05 - ACTUALLY AN INTENSIVE GREEN

24:07 - ROOF WITH HIGH PLANTINGS IN IT

24:08 - IT'S ABOUT

24:09 - 13,000 SQUARE FEET. THIS WHEN

24:11 - THIS WAS FIRST DONE ABOUT 10

24:13 - YEARS AGO IT WAS REALLY A

24:14 - LITTLE BIT AHEAD OF ITS TIME.

24:16 - BUT THIS BRINGS AN ELEMENT OF

24:18 - SUSTAINABILITY THAT THE

24:19 - CONVENTION CENTER WAS GOING FOR

24:21 - A WALK DELIA

24:22 - THE IDEA OF BRINGING THE

24:23 - OUTSIDE IN AND THE IDEA OF

24:25 - BEING AT ONE WITH NATURE.


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