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