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Historic structures Survey and Determination of Eligibility Report : East Lampeter, Leacock, Strasburg, Paradise, Salisbury, and Sadsbury Townships, Lancaster County, Pensylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16262

Date of Publication: 2005.

Call Number: 351.8642 M312hi

Place of Publication: Computer printout

Date of Publication: 2005.

Physical Description: 5 v. : ill; photos, col. maps ; 28 cm.

Notes: S.R. 0030 Section So1 Corridor Improvement Study...E.R. No. 03-8010-071.; Draft of the study.; Includes Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey (PHRS) forms.; Prepared for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation...prepared by A.D. Marble & Company...prepared with Archeaological & Historial Consultants.; Corridor of Lincoln Highway Eat.

Subjects: Architecture - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lincoln Highway - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - East Lampeter Twp.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Leacock Twp.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Strasburg Twp.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Paradise Twp.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Salisbury Twp.; Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Sadsbury Twp.; Salisbury (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.; Paradise (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.; Strasburg (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.; Leacock (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.; East Lampeter (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.; Sadsbury (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.; United States Highway 30 - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 351.8642 M312hi

Archive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/eddb76d5-1587-464c-a322-206961869538

Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Object ID: MG0237

Date Range: 1880-2003

Content Note: The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Series 1 includes employee handbooks, a job description, a beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic

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Collection: Watt & Shand Collection

Title: Watt & Shand Collection

Description: The Watt & Shand Collection contains materials related to the Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.; Series 1 includes employee handbooks, job description, beauty salon price list, bridal registry information, a history of the store, a Christmas catalog, a Historic Preservation Trust calendar, and children's books.; Series 2 is a record of the property at the downtown location and at Park City Mall beginning in 1880 with deeds, legal agreements, a building inspector's permit, and insurance policies.

Admin/Biographical History: On 22 February 1878, Peter Watt, James Shand and Gilbert Thompson advertised the opening of a new store, The New York Store, featuring new lines of foreign and domestic dry goods as well as fancy goods and notions. The New York Store opened on 9 March 1878 and was an immediate success focusing on customer service. The owners had an unwritten policy stating that they remained open until the last customer left. During that first year, partner Gilbert Thompson died. Watt and Shand purchased a building located at 8-10 East King Street and changed their name from The New York Store to Watt, Shand and Company. Then during 1885, the store name was shortened to Watt & Shand even though the business was expanding to acquire 6 East King Street. The Ladies' Ready-To-Wear Department was added in 1889 which included coats, suits, dresses, and underwear. The owners proceeded to expand the business over several decades and procured Appel & Weber jewelry store and Hager's Department Store during the 1950s and 1960s. The branch store opened in 1970 at Park City Mall. The Bon-Ton Stores purchased Watt & Shand in 1992 and the store officially closed in March of 1995

System of Arrangement: This collection is arranged by series.; Series 1 Items collected by LancasterHistory; Series 2 Gift of Penn Square Partners

Date Range: 1880-2003

Year Range From: 1880

Year Range To: 2003

Date of Accumulation: 1880-2003

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 06

People: Ammon, Cora Mae Fox; Ammon, John M.; Appel, Eva Rengier; Appel, Percy L.; Baker, Miriam Rengier; Bell, Louise Price; Berger, R. R.; Blatchley, Charles A.; Breyers, C. J.; Buchanan, James; Drukenbrod, Lee Roy; Fehl, J. Herbert; Frantz, I. E.; Fritz, C. C.; Goodhart, E. C.; Groff, Alpheaus S.; Groff, Ella L.; Hermansader, T. F.; Hirsh, Bertha; Hirsh, Gabriel; Hostetter, D. B.; Lively, Henry; Long, Jacob M.; Loss, Natalie M.; Loss, Nathan; Marshall, Elizabeth H. W.; Marshall, Elizabeth Weber; Marshall, George A.; Marshall, George W.; Marshall, Maria L. Good; May, Jennie H.; Miller, E. N.; Myers, Harry; Myers, Maria; Myers, Patricia Marshall; Myrtetus, George B.; Noonan, Ella O.; Noonan, Raymond Smith; Prangley, James; Reed, George R.; Reichley, Jacob Christian; Reifsnyder, Arden P.; Reifsnyder, Christine Kauffman; Rengier, Charles F.; Rengier, John S.; Rohrer, Adelaide C. Crohen; Rohrer, George Redsecker; Rohrer, Jeremiah; Rohrer, Mary Ann Redsecker; Roth, George R.; Rupert, L. H.; Schaller, Kimberly; Shand, James; Shand, Thomas Marshall; Sherrill, Anita B.; Sherrill, S. Edward; Short, Edwin P.; Skyllas, Drossos A.; Slaymaker, Peter J. Eckert; Stiles, H. A.; Stirk, Isaac; Stirk, Sarah C.; Swarr, Donald; Urban, Cassius Emlen; Watt, Laura Louise Geiger; Watt, Peter T.; Weber, May H.; Wisegarver, Harry P.; Witmer, Albert F.

Other Creators: Watt & Shand Department Store (Pa.)

Subjects: Advertising; Architectural drawings; Blueprints; Building leases; Calendars; Catalogs; Deeds; Department stores; Historical markers; Insurance policies; Letters; Menus; Newsletters; Penn Square (Lancaster, Pa.); Scrapbooks; Stores, Retail

Search Terms: A and S Realty and Investment Corporation; A. B. Rote & Co.; Advertising; Agreements; Air conditioning; American Blower Corporation; Appel & Weber; Architectural plans; Automatic Sprinkler Corporation of America; Awards; Blueprints; Bon-Ton; Bon-Ton Beauty Salon; Booklets; C. J. Breyer and Associates, Inc.; Calendars; Catalogs; Central Automatic Sprinkler Company; Certificates; Columbia; Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company; Commonwealth Title Company of Philadelphia; Correspondence; Deeds; Department stores; DUSCO Property Management, Inc.; East Hempfield Twp.; Employee handbooks; Employees; Ephemera; Escalators; Finding aids; Fire sprinklers; Floorplans; Gatter and Diehl Consulting Engineers; Gift certificates; Ground-rent; Hager and Bro., Inc.; Hager Realty Corporation; Heating and ventilation systems; Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County; Historical markers; Insurance policies; Job descriptions; Kroll Electric Company, Inc.; Lancaster; Lancaster Parking Authority; Lancaster Trust Company; Leases; Letters; Manuscript groups; Menus; Mortgages; Newsletters; Oblender's Furnishing, Inc.; Park City Mall; Penn Square; Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Pennsylvania Power and Light Company; Permits; Poetry; PPL; Price lists; Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company; Reynolds and Reynolds Company; Scrapbooks; Stores, Retail; Total Energy Leasing Corporation; Trion, Inc.; Watt and Shand; Workers' Compensation Act; York Corporation

Extent: 4 boxes, 59 folders, 1 scrapbook, 2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0237

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Series #, Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Folder 2 contains restricted items. With the exception of Folder 2, the items in this collection may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-237

Classification: MG0237

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Scrapbook cataloged by CB, 2008. Series 2, Folder 1-48 cataloged by ML, Summer 2014. Added to database 13 January 2022.; The Watt & Shand Department Store scrapbook was cataloged and preserved with funding from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. ME60112.

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Historic American buildings survey : Conestoga Garage

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12875

Author: Splain, Shelby Weaver

Date of Publication: 2002.

Call Number: 363.69 S761

Responsibility: prepared by Shelby Weaver Splain.

Author: Splain, Shelby Weaver

Place of Publication: [Lancaster, Pa.]

Publisher: [Noble Preservation Services, Inc.] ,

Date of Publication: 2002.

Physical Description: 9 p. : Photos : 28 cm.

Notes: Book accompanies 16 8"x10" black and white photographs of the interior and exterior of the bulding viewable via library photograph database under description "Conestoga Garage".; The Conestoga garage location - 221 - 223 North Queen Street, Lancaster, PA.

Subjects: Conestoga Garage (Lancaster, Pa.); Red Rose Transit Authority (RRTA); Historic buildings

Additional Corporate Author: Noble Preservation Services, Inc. (Company)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 363.69 S761

The buildings of Main Street : a guide to American commercial architecture

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo10656

Author: Longstreth, Richard W.

Edition: Updated ed.

Date of Publication: 2000.

Call Number: 725.2 L857

Responsibility: Richard Longstreth.

ISBN: 0742502791 (pbk. : alk paper)

Author: Longstreth, Richard W.

Edition: Updated ed.

Place of Publication: Walnut Creek, CA

Publisher: AltaMira Press,

Date of Publication: 2000.

Physical Description: 154 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Series: American Association for state and local history book series

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Commercial buildings - United States.; Architecture - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 725.2 L857

Guide to African American resources at the Pennsylvania State Archives

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9545

Author: Hodge, Ruth E.

Date of Publication: 2000.

Call Number: 016.9748 H688

Alternate Title: African American resources at the Pennsylvania State Archives.

Responsibility: Ruth E. Hodge.

ISBN: 089271087X

Author: Hodge, Ruth E.

Place of Publication: Harrisburg, [Pa.]

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,

Date of Publication: 2000.

Physical Description: xii, 598 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Clifford Edmond, Jr. Collection on African American History.; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. - Division of Archives and Manuscripts - Catalogs.; African Americans - Pennsylvania - Bibliography - Catalogs.; Manuscripts, American - Pennsylvania - Harrisburg - Catalogs.; Pennsylvania - Race relations - Sources - Bibliography - Catalogs.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 016.9748 H688

Architecture and landscape of the Pennsylvania Germans

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13048

Date of Publication: 2004.

Call Number: 728 A673

Place of Publication: [s.l

Publisher: s.n}

Date of Publication: 2004.

Physical Description: 122, 134 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Twenty-fifth annual Conference of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, May 12-16, 2004, Harrisburg, Pa.; Includes bibliographic references (p.118-122)

Contents: Pennsylvania Germans & German Speakers, A.G. Roeber--Landscapes, Gabrielle M. Lanier--House types, Charles Bergengren--Domestic outbuildings, Philip E. Pendleton--Barns and agricultural outbuildings, Sally McMurry and J. Ritchie Garrison--Townhouse, Bernard L. Herman, Thomas R. Ryan, and David Schuyler--Commercial architecture, Diane Wenger and J.Ritche Garrison--Religious Landscapes, Jerry Clouse.