(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.
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.