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Scranton Courthouse Square, Building PA

(2020) Tour of Scranton Courthouse Square buildings and monuments with the Lackawanna Historical Society

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00:36 - AND STANDING IN FRONT OF THE

00:37 - SCRANTON DOWNTOWN POST OFFICE

00:40 - BUILDING WHICH IS A

00:41 - NEOCLASSICAL STRUCTURE.

00:43 - COMPLETED IN 1930 IT'S A

00:45 - BEAUTIFUL BUILDING. IN THE

00:48 - NEO-CLASSICAL STYLE

00:51 - JAMES WETMORE A VERY WELL-KNOWN

00:54 - ARCHITECT. IT'S NOT JUST A

00:56 - BEAUTIFUL BUILDING BUT THERE'S

00:57 - SOME VERY NICE DETAILS ON THE

00:59 - DOORS, ANYONE WALKING BY TAKE A

01:01 - LOOK AT THE DOORS, THEY'RE

01:02 - BEAUTIFUL AND THEY HAVE UP.

01:04 - PONY UP ON IT. WHICH KEEPS

01:08 - AN IN LINE WITH IT

01:10 - BEING THE DOWNTOWN POST OFFICE

01:12 - I THINK THAT'S REALLY

01:12 - INTERESTING WITH THE PONY

01:14 - EXPRESS ON THE DOOR. THERE'S

01:16 - AN ADDITION, A NEW ADDITION

01:17 - COMPLETED BY A VERY RENOWNED

01:20 - LOCAL ARCHITECT PETER BOAL AND.

01:23 - IN

01:23 - 1999, WHICH HOUSES WILLIAM

01:26 - KNEELAND A FEDERAL BUILDING.

01:28 - SO TOGETHER THEY FORM

01:31 - FEDERAL BUILDING COMPLEX THE

01:33 - WILLIAM NEAL AND

01:33 - FEDERAL BUILDING AGAIN

01:35 - WELL-KNOWN ARCHITECT DESIGNED

01:36 - THIS EDITION 1999 PETER BOWL.

01:40 - THE BUILDING BEHIND ME IS ONE

01:42 - OF THE TRUE GEMS OF BUILDINGS

01:44 - IN SCRANTON IT IS A CULTURAL

01:46 - CENTER AT THE MASONIC TEMPLE.

01:48 - IT WAS DESIGNED BY. YORK

01:51 - ARCHITECT RAYMOND COURT AND

01:53 - THE NATION'S HAD A CONSTRUCTIVE

01:55 - BETWEEN

01:55 - 1927 IN 1930 AND THAT WAS

01:59 - BASICALLY THE BEGINNING OF THE

02:00 - DEPRESSION OF THE 30'S.

02:02 - IT IS INDIANA LIMESTONE IN

02:04 - INDIANA LIMESTONE ACTUALLY

02:05 - COMES FROM INDIANA

02:06 - PENNSYLVANIA, NOT THE STATE OF

02:08 - INDIANA. IT IT IS.

02:11 - BUT BASICALLY MODERN WITH MORE

02:12 - DETAILS AND SOME GOT THE

02:14 - DETAILS IF YOU LOOK OVER THE

02:16 - MAIN ENTRANCE YOU CAN SEE.

02:19 - FORMS THAT ARE BASICALLY GOT IT

02:20 - AND THE UP CULTURAL CENTER.

02:24 - IN THERE IT'S FOR THEATERS AND.

02:27 - CONCERTS THAT TYPE OF THING.

02:29 - THE MASONS STILL HAVE

02:30 - THE BUILDING AND THEY HAVE ALL

02:32 - THE MEETING

02:33 - THAT THEY WOULD HAVE HAD BEFORE

02:34 - THE LIBRARY IS THERE IT'S A

02:36 - REALLY BEAUTIFUL BUILDING ON

02:37 - THE INSIDE.

02:41 - SO WE'RE STANDING IN FRONT OF

02:43 - WHAT IS THE TALLEST MONUMENT ON

02:45 - COURTHOUSE SQUARE. THE SOLDIERS

02:46 - AND SAILORS MONUMENT STANDING

02:48 - AT A 104 FEET HIGH WITH THE

02:50 - GODDESS OF VICTORY ON TOP.

02:52 - IT COMMEMORATES THE CIVIL WAR

02:54 - SOLDIERS FROM THE AREA AND PAYS

02:56 - TRIBUTE IN A VERY TYPICAL CIVIL

02:58 - WAR MONUMENTS STYLE.

03:00 - THERE ARE CARVINGS OF SOME OF

03:01 - THE BATTLES ON THE SIDE AS WELL

03:04 - IT BEING FLANKED

03:05 - BY CANNONS AND THEN IT INCLUDES

03:07 - THE 4 REPRESENTATIONS FROM THE

03:11 - CIVIL WAR. SOLDIERS AROUND

03:13 - THE BOTTOM PART OF THE MONUMENT.

03:17 - ACTUALLY ERECTED HERE AND

03:18 - DEDICATED IN NOVEMBER OF 1900

03:21 - THEY HAD TO PUT IN EXTRA

03:23 - FOUNDATION ON THE GROUND

03:24 - BECAUSE THE COURTHOUSE WAS

03:26 - BUILT ON WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY A

03:27 - SWAMP. SO THEY HAD TO GO DOWN

03:29 - ABOUT 80 FEET

03:31 - TO CONFIRMED THE STRUCTURE

03:33 - UNDERNEATH SO THAT IT WOULD BE

03:34 - SOLID ENOUGH TO HOLD THE

03:35 - MONUMENT.

03:38 - COUNTY'S COURTHOUSE SQUARE.

03:40 - IT'S DESIGNED IN THE

03:41 - TRADITIONAL AMERICAN TRADITION.

03:43 - A TYPICAL CITY SQUARE. WHERE

03:46 - THEY PLACE IMPORTANT CIVIC

03:47 - BUILDINGS IN THE CENTER

03:48 - AND THEN OTHER IMPORTANT CIVIC

03:50 - AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS AROUND

03:51 - THE PERIMETER.

03:52 - THEY ALSO USE THE CORNERS WITH

03:54 - A PATRIOTIC MONUMENTS ANCHOR IN

03:56 - ALL THE CORNERS AND THEN TRY TO

03:58 - CREATE A PARK-LIKE SETTING THE

04:00 - MIDDLE OF THE SQUARE,

04:01 - A GREEN SPACE FROM WHICH TO

04:03 - ESCAPE FROM THE HUSTLE AND

04:04 - BUSTLE

04:04 - OF EVERYDAY. THIS COURTHOUSE

04:07 - WAS BUILT IN 1881 IT WAS

04:09 - DESIGNED BY ISAAC CAREY OF NEW

04:10 - YORK AND IT'S BUILT ON WHAT WAS

04:13 - PART OF THE. ORIGINAL SWAMP

04:15 - CALLED LILY.

04:17 - AND THE 1880'S, THE IRONWORKS

04:19 - HAD USE THIS AREA TO DUMP SOME

04:20 - OF THE SLAG AND FROM THERE.

04:22 - PRODUCTION AND THE LAND WAS

04:24 - THEN DONATED TO THE COUNTY SO

04:26 - THEY COULD PUT A COURTHOUSE IN

04:27 - WHAT WAS CONSIDERED TO BE THE

04:28 - CENTER OF

04:29 - THE CITY THAT IT WOULD PULL THE

04:31 - BUSINESS UP FROM THE COMMERCIAL

04:32 - DISTRICT DOWNTOWN LACKAWANNA.

04:34 - TOWARDS THE MORE RESIDENTIAL

04:36 - HILL SECTION. THE COURTHOUSE.

04:38 - ANOTHER INTERESTING FEATURE OF

04:40 - IT IS THE FACT THAT IT'S BUILT

04:41 - USING WEST MOUNTAINS STONE AND

04:43 - IF YOU LOOK TO WEST MOUNT

04:44 - YOU'LL SEE THE SCAR WITH THE

04:46 - KOREAS FROM WHERE THE SHOT WAS

04:47 - TAKEN. IT REPRESENTS THE IDEA

04:50 - THAT THE PEOPLE WHO FOUNDED THE

04:51 - COUNTY WE'RE VERY PROUD.

04:53 - NOT WHAT THEY WERE DOING AT

04:55 - THAT TIME. OF THE INDUSTRY THAT

04:57 - BUILT THE CAR.

04:58 - SO IT'S A NICE FEATURE THAT

04:59 - THEY WERE USING THEIR OWN

05:00 - NATURAL RESOURCES TO CONSTRUCT

05:02 - THE COURTHOUSE.

05:05 - IS THE GEORGE WASHINGTON

05:06 - MONUMENT, THE GEORGE WASHINGTON

05:07 - MONUMENT DEDICATED IN 1883 BY

05:10 - THE PATRIOTIC QUARTER OF SONS

05:12 - OF AMERICA. IT WAS THOUGHT TO

05:14 - BE THE FIRST MONUMENT ON

05:15 - COURTHOUSE SQUARE. OR AT LEAST

05:17 - THAT WAS THE PLAN.

05:18 - THE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

05:20 - MONUMENT WHICH IS ALSO ON

05:21 - TODAY'S TOUR. BEAT IT IN 1892

05:24 - IT WAS ESTABLISHED AND MIGHT

05:25 - HAVE BEEN BECAUSE MISTER

05:26 - CARLUCCI WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF

05:29 - THE COLUMBUS MONUMENT

05:30 - WAS ALSO THE PERSON BUILDING

05:31 - THE FACE FOR THE WASHINGTON

05:33 - MONUMENT.

05:34 - WE'RE STANDING HERE IN FRONT

05:35 - OF THE GEN MICHEL MONUMENT.

05:39 - GO TO DESIGN BY HIS BOOK IS

05:41 - CALLED PETER SHERIDAN AND

05:43 - ARRESTED IN 1924.

05:48 - IMMIGRATION OF OF JOHN MITCHELL

05:50 - WHO IS ONE OF

05:51 - THE FIRST LEADERS OF THE UNION

05:53 - THE UNITED MINE WORKERS OF

05:55 - AMERICA.

05:56 - JOHN MITCHELL BORN IN NEW YORK

05:58 - CITY BUT LATER MOVED TO

05:59 - SCRANTON TO ORGANIZE THE MINE

06:01 - WORKERS.

06:04 - 192 WHEN THERE

06:06 - WAS A 150,000 ANTHRACITE COAL

06:08 - MINERS TRAPPED FOR HIGHER WAGES

06:10 - AND THE FORMATION OF THE UNION

06:14 - THE WOULD INTERVENE BY A

06:16 - PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

06:18 - AND IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST

06:20 - CASES OF FEDERAL INTERVENTION

06:22 - IN A UNION AND A

06:23 - MINE FIELD AND MITCHELL A LOVE

06:26 - THE SCRANTON AREA AND HE BURIED

06:27 - HERE IN THIS APRIL CEMETERY, A

06:29 - BEAUTIFUL PART ABOVE THE ABOUT

06:31 - THIS

06:32 - A DOCTOR. IT'S LISTED ON THE

06:33 - NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC

06:35 - PLACES. TAKE A WALK AROUND.

06:38 - THE BACK OF THE PICKS A MINING

06:40 - FAMILY. AFTER TABLE. THE

06:43 - OF THEM. MOTHER THE FATHER, THE

06:44 - CHILDREN AND THEIR PET THE DOG

06:46 - AND THE CAT, SO IT'S A

06:47 - BEAUTIFUL DEPICTION AND ON THE

06:49 - AGENDA. MITCHELL. BUT EVAN,

06:50 - ANTHRACITE COAL MINING FAMILY.

06:53 - WE MENTIONED THAT

06:54 - THE SQUARE AS MONUMENTS

06:55 - DEDICATED TO WAR HEROES.

07:01 - PEOPLE FROM THE AREA.

07:02 - THIS MONUMENT FOR STANDING IN

07:04 - FRONT OF YOU.

07:09 - IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND HE

07:12 - FOUGHT WITH THE GEORGE

07:13 - WASHINGTON. THE BATTLE OF

07:14 - BRANDYWINE. HE DIED AND

07:17 - 1779 IN THE BATTLE IN SAVANNAH

07:19 - GEORGIA WHERE HE IS ALSO VERY.

07:22 - HE WAS A POLISH GENERAL AND THE

07:24 - MONUMENT WAS DEDICATED THEIR

07:26 - PUT HERE.

08:14 - IT WAS DEDICATED BY THE

08:16 - UKRAINIAN PEOPLE IN THIS AREA.

08:18 - TO REPRESENT 1000 YEARS OF

08:20 - CHRISTIANITY IN UKRAINE THAT

08:22 - WAS FROM 9.88. SHE WAS 1988, SO

08:26 - WAS PLANTED IN 1988.

08:28 - THERE'S A LITTLE CLASS TELLING

08:29 - YOU THIS, BUT THE PLAQUE IS NOT

08:30 - THE MONUMENT. THE TREE ITSELF

08:32 - IS.

08:45 - CHAINS ACROSS THE

08:46 - HUDSON AND THE SOUNDS A LITTLE

08:47 - STRANGE TO STOP THE ENGLISH

08:49 - FLEE FROM GETTING TO WEST POINT

08:51 - AND I THOUGHT HOW COULD THAT

08:53 - STOP A FLEET OF SHIPS.

08:58 - VERY LARGE

08:59 - ARE HUGE. BUT ONE LANE YOU

09:01 - COULD GET 2 OR 3 PEOPLE IN SO

09:03 - THAT ACTUALLY WOULD STOP THEM.

09:04 - JUST GO WITH WITH GENERAL

09:06 - WASHINGTON. DESIGNED SEVERAL

09:09 - PORTS.

09:12 - TO JAMES TONEY WAS ACTUALLY

09:14 - THERE.

09:18 - HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN WRITING

09:20 - A CONSTITUTION WHICH FREE THEIR

09:21 - SEARCH.

09:23 - INTERESTED IN FREEING SLAVES

09:25 - AND SERFS HE ACTUALLY GAVE

09:26 - MONEY TO JEFFERSON. TO. FOR.

09:30 - A PLACE THAT WOULD BE FREE.

09:31 - BUT OF COURSE THAT DIDN'T

09:32 - HAPPEN DURING JEFFERSON'S LIFE

09:34 - TIME AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT

09:34 - HAPPENED TO

09:35 - THAT MONEY AND DIED IN

09:37 - SWITZERLAND BECAUSE HE COULDN'T

09:39 - GO BACK TO POLAND. THE RUSSIANS

09:40 - HAD ALREADY TAKEN IT OVER.

09:41 - BUT HE IS BURIED IN KRAKOW AND

09:43 - THERE'S A STATUE OF HIM BY THE

09:45 - CATHEDRAL, THERE.

09:47 - THE STATUE IS OF CHRISTOPHER

09:48 - COLUMBUS. AND IT WAS

09:50 - DEDICATED ON. TOBAR. 21ST.

09:55 - 1892. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO

09:57 - HAVE BEEN DEDICATED ON COLUMBUS

09:59 - DAY. BUT THE BASE.

10:07 - CAME FROM ITALY IN THE 1880'S,

10:09 - A ROOM.

10:14 - AND THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT

10:15 - THE COLUMBUS STATUE IS THAT

10:17 - WHEN AND FORGET OFF.

10:21 - WHERE THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT IN

10:23 - SCRANTON WAS AND THEY WERE

10:24 - TELLING HIM TO GO DOWN TO THE

10:25 - SQUARE AND FOLLOW THE DIRECTION

10:28 - OF THE COLUMBUS WAS POINTING IN

10:29 - BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE IT WAS.

10:31 - RIGHT IN BACK OF ME IS THE

10:32 - SCRANTON ELECTRIC BUILDING.

10:35 - WHICH WAS CONSTRUCTED.

10:37 - IN 1896. I OF FAMOUS LOCAL

10:40 - ARCHITECT LANSING HOLDEN.

10:42 - WELL ALSO DESIGN MANY OTHER

10:44 - LOCAL BUILDINGS. IT WAS

10:47 - FORMALLY KNOWN AS THE SCRANTON

10:48 - BOARD OF TRADE.

10:50 - I REMEMBER THERE WERE MANY

10:51 - INDUSTRIES IN THIS AREA THAT

10:53 - COOL THE EYE OR IN THE CLOTHING

10:55 - DELAYS BUT MANUFACTURING

10:57 - ADDRESS FACTORIES, SO MILLS AND

10:59 - SO TO COORDINATE ALL THAT WE

11:01 - NEEDED A BOARD OF TRADE.

11:03 - THE BOARD OF TRADE OF OPERATED

11:05 - THIS BUILDING ON THE BUILDING

11:06 - UNTIL THEY SOLD IT TO THE

11:09 - ELECTRIC COMPANY IN 1926 AND

11:12 - THEY ARE ACTIVE. THE BEAUTIFUL

11:13 - SPENT AN ELECTRIC SIGN WHICH IS

11:15 - LIT UP THE DOWNTOWN FOR MANY

11:17 - MANY YEARS.

11:19 - SIGN WAS START FOR A FEW YEARS

11:20 - AND WAS REMODELED AND RESTORED.

11:22 - IN 2005.

11:30 - IT WAS BUILT IN

11:32 - 1896, A WARM AND FUZZY WITH

11:34 - PPE CARTER. WHEN IT WAS BUILT

11:36 - IT WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO BE A

11:37 - COMMERCIAL BUILDING.

11:44 - WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE BUILDING

11:46 - IT LOOK.

11:52 - TIMBER BUILDING.

11:55 - THE REASON

11:55 - WE CALL THE ALLEN BUILDING IS

11:57 - BECAUSE OF ITS LOCATION ON THE

11:59 - CORNER OF ADAMS AVENUE AND

12:01 - LINDEN STREET.

12:05 - I THINK THE UNIVERSITY OF

12:07 - SCRANTON BOUGHT THE BUILDING

12:08 - AND IT WAS RENAMED. THE LEWIS

12:11 - FAMILY GROUND BUILDING.

12:14 - A GRADUATE FROM THE UNIVERSITY

12:16 - OF SCRANTON.

12:20 - IN BACK OF US IS THE

12:21 - BEAUTIFUL STORM PFISTER

12:22 - BUILDING WITH ITS

12:23 - A WHITE AILES IT'S BEAUTIFUL

12:25 - WHITE TILES IT WAS CONSTRUCTED

12:27 - IN 1923

12:29 - AND THE HOME OF THE STORM

12:30 - MISTER FURNITURE COMPANY.

12:32 - A STORY MISTER WAS ONE OF THE

12:34 - MOST WELL KNOWN.

12:37 - AND SUCCESSFUL FURNITURE

12:38 - COMPANIES IN PENNSYLVANIA AND

12:40 - IN THE UNITED STATES.

12:42 - AND IT WAS SO TO BRANDS

12:44 - OPERATED HERE FOR

12:45 - MANY YEARS MANUFACTURING

12:48 - FURNITURE DRAPERIES HOME

12:50 - FURNISHING AND IT WAS LATER

12:52 - SOLD THIS BRANDS.

12:54 - UP UNTIL RECENTLY IT WAS THE

12:56 - HOME OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY

12:58 - ADMINISTRATION BEFORE THEY

12:59 - MOVED INTO THE HISTORIC CLUB

13:01 - STORE. THERE'S THE DETAILS ON

13:03 - THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING WHICH

13:04 - IS OF GREAT INTEREST TO ME AND

13:06 - I'M SURE MANY PEOPLE WALKING BY

13:08 - DON'T NOTICE IT.

13:09 - BUT TAKE A LOOK AT ELABORATE

13:11 - CARVINGS OF THE FURNITURE ELVES

13:13 - THAT AROUND THE FRONT OF THE

13:14 - BUILDING.

13:16 - VERY NICE DEPICTIONS OF

13:18 - OF ELVES THAT ARE CONSTRUCTING

13:21 - FURNITURE.

13:22 - A RENDITION OF WHAT WAS DONE IN

13:24 - THE UPPER FLOORS

13:25 - OF THE STORIED HISTORY BUILDING

13:27 - IT'S A NICE ACCENT FOR PEOPLE

13:29 - WALKING BY THE SEA.

13:49 - I BELIEVE THAT WHAT HAD.

13:55 - LIKE IT WAS NEVER COMPLETED.

13:59 - NEWLY CONSTRUCTED

14:00 - PARKING GARAGE. ALONGSIDE OF

14:03 - THE GRADS IS THE 5TH 18

14:05 - HISTORIC MEDALLIONS.

14:07 - THESE MEDALLIONS AWARE OF AND

14:10 - THE FRONT OF THE HISTORIC HOTEL

14:13 - PARKING GRAD WHICH WAS BUILT

14:15 - IN THE 1920'S.

14:17 - WHEN THE HOTEL CASEY WAS

14:18 - DEMOLISHED AND THE CRASH WAS

14:21 - TORN DOWN. THEY SAY THE

14:22 - MEDALLIONS AND THE 18 OF THEM

14:25 - AGAIN OR A FIX TO THIS PARKING

14:27 - GARAGE. WHAT'S ON THE

14:28 - MEDALLIONS.

14:32 - EARLY OUT IT WILL BE OLSON

14:33 - MOTORCYCLE SO IT'S REALLY WORTH

14:35 - A LOOK.

14:35 - I AND TO LOOK UP INTO NOTICES

14:37 - TO START MEDALLIONS.

14:45 - 1916 AND DESIGN BY ARCHITECT

14:48 - EDWARD LANGLEY. WE DESIGNED A

14:50 - LOT OF THE BUILDINGS IN

14:51 - SCRANTON.

15:59 - IT WAS BUILT IN

16:00 - 1891. THE ARCHITECT WAS

16:02 - LANSING HOLDEN. IT WAS BILL 4

16:04 - JUDGE ALFRED HAIR.

16:09 - WAS ALWAYS USED

16:09 - AS COMMERCIAL BUILDING AND THE

16:12 - UPSTAIRS FOR USE AS APARTMENTS.

16:14 - IT'S BUILT US HOW.

16:25 - NOW IN THIS BUILDING WAS BUILT.

16:34 - ON THE CORNER WHERE THE DOOR IS.

16:44 - WHEN THEY BUILT THIS BUILDING

16:45 - BECAUSE OF THAT CIRCLE. IT

16:48 - WASN'T 10 FEET. BUT THEN IF YOU

16:50 - LOOK ON THE SIDE WHERE THE

16:52 - BALCONIES OVERHANG THAT'S ALSO

16:54 - KIND OF LIKE COM

16:55 - COMMERCIAL THING BUT BECAUSE IT

16:57 - WAS ABOVE GROUND LEVEL THEY GOT

16:59 - AWAY WITH IT.

17:05 - AND THE MAYOR'S BUILDING.

17:07 - AND THIS BUILDING WAS BUILT

17:09 - IN 1896.

17:15 - OF ARCHITECTURE.

17:16 - THE BUILDING IF YOU NOTICED

17:18 - BETWEEN THE.

17:24 - AND BECAUSE THIS IS SHUT CALLED

17:26 - THE STYLE THAT MEANS IS FILLED

17:28 - WITH. STEEL FRAMING IT.

17:35 - WHERE THESE THE STEEL

17:36 - GIRDERS GO. THIS BUILDING IS

17:38 - DONE IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT

17:40 - STYLES IF YOU LOOK AT IT.

17:41 - IT LOOKS LIKE A WEDDING CAKE

17:43 - BECAUSE OF THAT DIFFERENT TEARS

17:45 - AND EACH.

17:51 - ON THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING

17:53 - THERE IS A. FIRE ESCAPE

17:56 - WAS NOT ORIGINAL TO THE

17:58 - BUILDING BUT WHEN IT WAS

17:59 - STRUCK TO IT'S MADE TO LOOK

18:01 - LIKE IT WAS PART OF THE

18:02 - BUILDING. THIS BUILDING IS ALSO

18:05 - SCRANTON'S.

18:07 - A SKYSCRAPER IS CONSIDERED ANY

18:09 - BUILDING THAT HAS 10 FLOORS IN

18:11 - THAT AND THIS WAS ONE THIS WILL

18:13 - SCRANTON'S FOR FIRST SKYSCRAPER.

18:20 - WHICH IS THE WIFE BUILDING NEXT

18:22 - TO BE.

18:26 - IT WAS BUILT IN

18:27 - 1890 BY THE SAME ARCHITECT THE

18:30 - DIDN'T THEY THE RED

18:31 - BRICK BUILDING LANSING HOLDING

18:33 - THE BRIDGE. NO BUILDING WAS 40

18:35 - FEET.

18:38 - A FEW YEARS LATER THEY

18:39 - PUT AN ADDITION ON THE BUILDING

18:41 - THAT IS WHY IF YOU LOOK AT THE

18:42 - SCENE WHERE THE DOOR IS

18:44 - THE DOOR WAS CENTERED WITH THE

18:46 - ORIGINAL 40 FOOT BUILDING WHEN

18:48 - THEY PUT THE ADDITION ON.

18:50 - KIND OF A SOFT CENTER. THE

18:52 - BUILDING WAS BUILT FOR WILLIE.

19:07 - THEY ACTUALLY GOT TO BE

19:08 - ON THAT A TOUR OF THE COAL MINE

19:10 - AND EVENTUALLY WON. HE ACTUALLY

19:13 - BOUGHT A COAL MINE.

19:37 - IS CALLED THEY WILL

19:38 - WORK MANSION.

19:39 - IT WAS DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT

19:41 - LANSING HOLDEN AND BUILT IN 19

19:43 - '09.

19:45 - THE WILL WORK. THE

19:46 - HILTON WAS ACS FORWARD THE

19:49 - BROTHER OF FW OVER. THEY HAVE

19:51 - COME TO SCRANTON TO SET UP ONE

19:53 - OF THEIR 5 INTENSE AND STORES

19:55 - AND IT WAS SUCCESSFUL IS ABOUT

19:56 - THE 3RD ONE IN

19:57 - THE COUNTRY AND FRANK MOVE DONE

19:59 - BUT SEE US STAY HERE IN BUILT

20:01 - THIS MANSION AND HIS FAMILY

20:02 - LIVED HERE UNTIL THE 1940'S.

20:05 - IT IS A

20:05 - MAGNIFICENT BUILDING. IT WAS

20:07 - EMPTY FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND

20:09 - THEN AN ARTIST'S NAME HUNTS BUT

20:12 - IT AND RESTORED IT. THE INSIDE

20:14 - HAS A LOT OF HIS ARTWORK WHICH

20:16 - ANYBODY'S ACTUALLY READ IT

20:19 - THE FURNISHINGS ARE BEAUTIFUL,

20:21 - IT'S. BASICALLY FRENCH.

20:25 - THE BUILDING OVER THERE AND

20:27 - IT'S UP ONE STONE THE BUILDING

20:28 - OVER THERE IS THE CARRIAGE

20:29 - HOUSE ALSO RESTORED THERE'S A

20:31 - TUNNEL FROM THE CARRIAGE HOUSE

20:33 - INTO THE MAIN HOUSE.

20:37 - SO IF ANYBODY HAS ABOUT A

20:38 - MILLION AND A HALF DOLLARS YOU

20:39 - COULD PROBABLY BUY IT.

20:42 - IT ORIGINALLY WAS A HOME FOR

20:43 - THE WOOLWORTH FAMILY AND AFTER

20:45 - THEY DIED AND SOLD IT WAS LIKE

20:47 - A DIFFERENT

20:47 - INCARNATIONS BEFORE HUNT'S LOAN

20:49 - AND BOUGHT IT ABOUT 10 YEARS

20:50 - AGO IN RESTORED FOR HIS HOME.

20:54 - THIS BUILDING IS THE COLONNADE

20:56 - IT ORIGINALLY WAS THE BLAIR

20:58 - HAD. THE

21:00 - 1870'S AFTER WORLD WAR 2.

21:08 - JAMES BLAIR HAS BEEN

21:10 - AN INDUSTRIALIST AND BANKER

21:11 - IN SCRANTON AND 1910 AUSTIN SON.

21:15 - REMODELED IT IN GREEK REVIVAL

21:17 - WHICH WAS VERY POPULAR.

21:19 - AND 19 TEENS. THE COLUMNS IN

21:23 - THE FRONT AND HE ADDED.

21:25 - THE 3RD FLOOR BALLROOM BECAUSE

21:27 - OF LIFE LIKE TO DANCE. IT WAS

21:29 - AROUND A 2009 WHEN 2 MEN BOUGHT

21:32 - IT AND ONLY RESTORED BECAUSE

21:34 - BEFORE THAT IF YOU'RE REALLY

21:36 - BEEN IN BAD CONDITION. IT WAS

21:38 - STILL A PRIVATE HOME BUT AT ONE

21:40 - TIME ACTUALLY IT'S BEEN A

21:41 - FUNERAL PARLOR. SO THEY BOUGHT

21:43 - IT THEY ADDED ON THIS SIDE.

21:50 - EVENTS SPOT.

21:52 - A 3RD FLOOR APARTMENT WHERE

21:54 - THEY LIVE AND WHERE THE UP.

21:55 - THE BALLROOM HEADBAND AND IT IS

21:58 - A VERY POPULAR.

22:03 - I'D LIKE TO INVITE

22:04 - SHOE, ANYTIME YOU ARE IN

22:06 - SCRANTON TO COME FROM

22:07 - LACKAWANNA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

22:09 - AND WE CAN GIVE YOU A PERSONAL

22:10 - TOUR OF YOUR OWN.

22:11 - YOU CAN REACH US AT LACKAWANNA

22:13 - HISTORY DOT ORG.


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