"Mame isn't at Ephrata yet? Don't know when I will let her go. She is real convenient & a good childs nurse. These busy mothers need them. From Mary F."
The Lancaster County Courthouse - from Bridgen's 1875 Atlas of Lancaster County. This Neoclassical structure, still in use on the corner of East King and North Duke Streets, was built in 1852 at the cost of $175,000.
Belvedere Restoration, City of Lancaster Municipal Building, Lancaster, Pennsylvania completed June 4, 1995. Measuring 37'-5" tall to the top of the finial, the domed belvedere crowns an Indiana Oolitic limestone base that rises approximately 61 feet in the air. An accurate reconstruction of the original destroyed by lightening on July 11, 1993, the belvedere consists of 4000 pounds of copper over wood frame construction; the entire assembly weighs seven tons.
Originally a U. S. Post Ofiice, construction began on the building in 1892. William A. Freret and James H. Windrim were the supervising architects of the treasury; C. Emlen Urban was the supervising local architect.
