Walk Bloomsburg

A self-guided walking tour for the historic district of downtown Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

Bloomsburg walk A self-guided walking tour for the historic district of downtown Bloomsburg.

Bloomsburg walk Bloomsburg’s Historic District offers a wealth of visual delights to sharp-eyed observers. This booklet outlines three Self-Guided Walking Tours to highlight some of the outstanding features of Main Street and the adjacent residential areas. Bloomsburg’s original town streets were laid out in 1802 by Ludwig and John Adam Eyer, confident that the location at a regional crossroads would guarantee growth. After a slow start the village grew rapidly in the latter half of the 19th century. A majority of the buildings in the Historic District date from that era, with a few earlier (1830-1850) and a number of 20th-century buildings. Architectural styles are varied, from austere Federal to highly decorative Second Empire and Romanesque. The “character” of the downtown is evoked chiefly by two- and three-story brick commercial buildings erected along Main Street before 1900. These buildings evidence a variety of 19th- century styles, but many of them have common features: narrow sash windows,

Please respect the privacy of the property owners. Residences are not open to the public. Architectural Review Board to assess building-permit applications to ensure that the historic qualities of the District are preserved even in such details as the style of windows. hitching posts in front and/or small stables at the back, relics of the pre- automobile age when the homes were built. In the 1980s the Town of Bloomsburg began a concerted effort to maintain and enhance its architectural heritage. The Town Council established a Historic District, roughly five blocks long and four wide. The Town also created a Historic ornamental brickwork, wrought-iron details, and prominent cornices (roof- line projections). The focal point of the downtown is the Market Square with its Civil War monument and Stroup Fountain. Important landmark buildings are Bloomsburg University’s Carver Hall, Bloomsburg Town Hall, and the Columbia County Courthouse. The adjoining residential districts, particularly on Market Street and Fifth Street, display numerous attractive homes from the same era. Some of these are fairly grand but all were built as “livable” single-family homes. Several homes retain

Tour 1:

Market & Main Street

This tour is approximately one mile in length.

Tour 1 Map on page 12.

Town Fountain

The fountain was acquired by the town from the J. L. Mott Company in New York City and installed in the fall of 1892. The Bloomsburg Water Company informed Town Council it would supply free water for a fountain, and Town Council used money from the David Stroup estate for the purchase. In the late

1960s the fountain was moved to Town Park; some twenty years later it was re-installed and then in 2002 refurbished to its original appearance.

123 Market Street

St. Matthew Lutheran Church was designed by Ritter & Shay, Philadelphia architects, and opened in 1925 on the site of the original church. The building features a 20th Century Cathedral Style exterior with random coursed rockface and ashlar masonry (dressed stone). St. Matthew’s originated in St. Paul’s

Lutheran Church, founded in 1807; for fifty years it shared a building on First Street with the German Reformed congregation. In 1857 the Lutherans erected their own church and changed its name to St. Matthew. The education wing in the rear opened in 1957.

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1 Market Street

This Italianate style house dating from the 1830s is noted for its cupola and the encircling verandah. Rev. David J. Waller purchased the property in 1847 and lived here until he built a grander home at Market and Fifth Streets. Retiring from the pulpit in 1871, Waller devoted

his time to the development of industries, a railroad, and extensive housing tracts. A later owner, Dr. William M. Reber, had his surname engraved on the carriage stepping stone at the front of the property.

75 West 1st Street

Built in the 1840s, this Federal/Greek Revival style home was owned by Judge Warren Woodward, the first elected judge (1856 - 1861) of the 26th judicial district and later a Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Greek Revival details

in the porch, the cornice, and pilasters distinguish this structure that commands the vista down Market Street. A later longtime owner until his death in 1939 was Amon Z. Schoch, for many years the president of both the Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust Company and the Bloomsburg State Normal School Board of Trustees.

102 Market Street

James Thornton, a blacksmith, owned this Federal style property at the time of the 1830 census. This post-and- beam house is one of the oldest standing frame structures in Bloomsburg.

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150 Market Street

The Caldwell Consistory, Valley of Bloomsburg, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, is a fraternal organization for master Masons founded in 1867 and named for John Caldwell, a prominent Philadelphia Mason. The building is a Victorian

Eclectic/Modified Colonial Revival style, designed by Truman P. Reitmyer, built by E. E. Ritter of Allentown, and dedicated in 1907. One million terra cotta bricks were used in its construction. The double-headed eagle above the front door is the symbol for a consistory.

111 West Main Street

This building, designed by Verus T. Ritter, Williamsport architect, features decorative Art Deco elements. Completed in 1908, it originally housed the Morning Press newspaper, established in 1902 by Paul Eyerly and

Charles Vanderslice. Indiana limestone and gray pressed brick with matching mortar provide a striking exterior contrast with the cast-iron trim.

203 West Main Street

John Schell, a Bloomsburg architect, designed the former Moose Lodge, completed in 1950, as an Art Deco in the Miami Style building. The Bloomsburg

Lodge, No. 623, Royal Order of Moose, was founded on January 18,

1920. Membership steadily increased over the years and the lodge decided to build its own home at this site and remained until June 1999. After becoming a community arts center in 2010, the building burned on Jan. 30, 2014.

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259 West Main Street

The Iddings Barkley House, constructed c.1810-1815, is one of the oldest standing structures on Main Street. It is an excellent example of pure, early Federal style.

Cross the street and continue back to Market Square.

246 West Main Street

A Second Empire style building with mansard roof and twin pedimented dormers accented by semi-circular windows. The front entrance is not original. Built c.1870 as a family home for Lloyd T. Sharpless, a grocer, it later became the Baker and then the Kriner Funeral Home.

128 West Main Street

Christopher A. Kleim opened his drug store here in 1895,

where he also raised his family. The Queen Anne style building, designed by Danville architect John H. Brugler, features a roof with cross gable and turret and an interesting interplay of polychromatic brick and shingle surfaces on the second floor facade.

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102-106 West Main Street

Built in 1894, the Peacock and Moyer Building is a Georgian Revival with Neo-Classical Elements. This building with its cast- iron facade was built for entrepreneur Clinton C. Peacock and Lucas N. Moyer, President, Bloomsburg Silk

Mills, to provide retail, office and residential space.

Civil War Monument

The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors monument was constructed in 1908 from seventeen blocks of granite, weighs 100 tons, and rises sixty feet in height. It was purchased by the County Commissioners from Worden Brothers, Batavia,

New York. On the shaft are the names of some Civil War battles in which Columbia County soldiers fought. Statues on the four corners represent the infantry, cavalry, artillery, and navy.

36 West Main Street

Built in 1880 in the Italianate style, the columns and entrance arches in the Classical Revival style were added later, then covered over before being exposed and restored in 2006. Paul E. Wirt purchased the building from the William McKinney

estate in 1887. He used it as the office for the Wirt Fountain Pen Company and as a rental property; the post office was on the ground floor.

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20-24 West Main Street

Casper Chrisman built the original log and frame Exchange Hotel in 1810, which was followed c. 1858 by a three-story brick Federal Style building. Destroyed by fire in 1870, the hotel was replaced in 1874 by an impressive four-

story brick Second Empire building with mansard roof. It was purchased in 1912 by James Magee II, the founder of the Magee Carpet Company, and renamed the Magee Hotel. Following fire damage in 1933, the present Neo-Classical façade was constructed. The hotel ceased operation in 2003.

226 Center Street

The Grand Opera House (1874) formerly located on this site was demolished in 1938 to make way for the Columbia Theatre, which opened in 1940. The Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble (BTE) purchased the building in 1980, gutted

it, and renovated the interior to make it suitable for live performance. Original Art Deco decorations were re-installed inside the theatre, renamed the Alvina Krause Theatre in honor of the Ensemble’s founder.

56-64 East Main Street

The Crescent Building was built by wholesaler Jacob Keller, who moved his business in the first floor when the building was

completed in 1893. Designed with Romanesque and Queen Anne elements, note the distinctive crescent of bricks, the floral terra cotta embellishments, and the curved wrought-iron balconies.

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130 East Main Street

This clock was erected c.1914 by the A.B. Hess Jewelry Store and was relettered when the business was bought by Sneidman c.1924. A similar clock stood near Market Square at the former Roy’s Jewelers.

322 East 2nd Street

The former Housenick Motors building was constructed in an early Modern Industrial style in 1919 by the Housenick Motors Company, the second oldest Ford dealership in the country. While the company was on the ground floor, notable amongst second floor

tenants was a dance hall known as the “Casino” and a training area for George Keller’s performing animal act of big cats. Keller, a former Bloomsburg University art professor, had a successful 20-year career with a variety of shows including Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus. Following the dealership’s closing, the building was remodeled for student apartments.

352 East 2nd Street

This Queen Anne style house was built in 1889 for Cortez B. Robbins, a wholesale liquor dealer and a lifelong bachelor who lived here until his death in 1937. An interior stained- glass window includes a hand painted robin. Note that there are several Queen Anne houses on this block .

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200 South Penn Street

Carver Hall, built in a Georgian Revival style with Italianate Revival elements, was dedicated in 1867. The center cupola was replaced by a projecting domed bell

tower in 1900 and lights were added to the tower in 1954 as a memorial to students who died serving in World War II. Originally called Institute Hall for the Bloomsburg Literary Institute, it was the first building erected on the present campus and renamed in 1927 in honor of Henry Carver, the Principal from 1866 to 1871.

301 East 2nd Street

The Romanesque style Bloomsburg Town Hall was built in 1890. Notice that the exterior walls incorporate molded terra cotta bricks (now painted).

101 East Main Street

St. Paul’s Episcopal, in 1790 the one-acre site for the church was the original town burial ground. The present church, built in 1868 in Victorian Gothic, was preceded by three structures which stood to the right where the Rectory (built in

1876 in the Gothic Style) now stands. The current bell tower was completed in 1891 and the attached parish house (up Iron Street) in 1892. The first pipe organ in Bloomsburg was installed here in 1874.

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35 West Main Street

The front section of the Columbia County Courthouse is in the Romanesque Revival style. When the county seat was moved from Danville to Bloomsburg in 1846, the town’s citizens raised private funds that year to erect the courthouse and jail. The

building has been enlarged three times: rear extension in 1868, expansion to the front in 1891 (with a new entrance and clock tower), and a second addition to the rear in 1938, designed by Bloomsburg architect John Schell.

37 West Main Street

Originally housing the Farmer’s National Bank,

this Art Deco building with Egyptian Revival Motifs was built in 1941. The bank first opened for business in 1891 in an earlier building on this site. In 1909, the bank purchased and rebuilt it, then demolished the structure 30 years later to erect the current building.

Tour 1 MapGuide

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

Town Fountain 123 Market Street 1 Market Street 75 Market Street 102 Market Street 150 Market Street

Civil War Monument 36 West Main Street 20-24 West Main Street 226 Center Street 56-64 East Main Street 130 East Main Street 300 East Main Street 352 East 2nd Street 200 South Penn Street 352 East 2nd Street 101 East Main Street 35 West Main Street 37 West Main Street

111 West Main Street 203 West Main Street 259 West Main Street 246 West Main Street 128 West Main Street 102-106 West Main Street

10. 11. 12.

Market Street

Tour 2: Market Street

This tour is approximately 1/4 mile in length.

Tour 2 Map on pages 18.

230 Market Street 26

The United States Post Office, designed in the High Georgian style, opened in 1936. It features a Flemish bond veneer brickwork and of note in the lobby are low-relief sculptures depicting agricultural scenes. It was built as a project of the Depression-era Works Progress

Administration. J. R. Moyer, postmaster, operated the Post Office in his store on this site from 1840 to 1847.

240 Market Street 27

The Neo-Classical style Tustin Mansion, built for Edward B. Tustin, was designed by Williamsport architect Truman P. Reitmyer. Tustin was a local bank official and entrepreneur who lost his fortune in copper mine speculation, ran into financial difficulties in 1910,

eventually forced to declare bankruptcy, and left town. The cost of the mansion when completed in 1906 after five years of construction totaled $200,000 ($100,000 for the building and $100,000 for the furnishings). Bought by the Bloomsburg Elks in 1923 and expanded in 1942, it served as a lodge for nearly eighty years. The Elks and the Columbia Alliance for Economic Growth, which opened the building as a technology center in 2005, both undertook significant restoration of the mansion.

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300 Market Street

Wesley United Methodist Church was dedicated in 1897, having been designed in a Victorian Gothic Revival style by Philadelphia architect Thomas P. Lonsdale. It was built by Benjamin W. Jury for $55,000 including furnishings, using Elk Grove Graystone

trimmed with Indiana limestone. An education wing and gymnasium were completed in 1927. Two previous Methodist churches (1837 frame, 1857 brick) occupied the back of the present lot.

414 Market Street

A Queen Anne style house completed in 1898 for T. L. Gunton, with ashlar foundation and second- story recessed porch with Ionic columns. Known

as the “Monument Man,” Gunton was the proprietor of the Marble and Granite Works. Note the dragon gargoyles on the roof and the griffins guarding the front steps.

434 Market Street

The current structure is a Georgian Revival style, built c.1907 around the original narrow Victorian house dating to c.1870. Note the side windows which differ from the front. Previous owners have included James Law, a president of the Magee Carpet Company.

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450 Market Street

This unique house for Bloomsburg was built in the Prairie style, reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright designs. Its cubistic shapes and earthy organic colors were a rebellion against late Victorian grandeur. The house was built in the mid-1920s for William

F. Gunter, operator of the Bloomsburg Silk Mills, and. purchased in 1929 by insurance agent John Housenick. His two daughters, Elizabeth and Helen, resided here for their entire lives, Helen passing away in 1989.

401 Market Street

This Romanesque style with rusticated masonry building opened in 1893 as the Snyder & Magee Company Ltd. , owned by James Magee II. Note the decorative pointing of the masonry with red mortar. The store was a general store used by employees of the

Magee Carpet Company and in 1895 became the Leader Department Store. The Leader Store moved permanently to the Exchange Hotel on Main Street (#15) by 1913. The building was then remodeled and in 1922 housed a bakery, which became the Letterman Baking Company three years later under six Letterman brothers. To the right, on the site of the present offices, was first a shed and then a three-door garage built in 1939 to house the bakery’s delivery trucks.

345 Market Street

The First Presbyterian Church, built as a Victorian Gothic Style with Hummelstown brownstone laid in random courses, was dedicated on June 11, 1891. The architect for the church was C. W. Bolten of Philadelphia.

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325 Market Street

An 1878 Italianate Revival style home with Moorish influence utilizing cast cement. It features a large steel carriage porch entry and note the amphorae with swags on the façade. The house was built for Elijah R. Ikeler, elected President Judge

in 1888. Following his death a decade later, it became the residence of his son Fred. Later additions at the rear accommodated a succession of funeral homes.

317 Market Street

The Christian Science Church and Reading Room is in the Bungalow Arts & Crafts style. It is a Sears Roebuck house, built c.1920 from a mail order kit sent by train.

311 Market Street

A Queen Anne style house with interesting fishhook ornamentation and circular patterned shingles around a third story window. It was completed in 1893 and served as the residence of Dr. John Jordan Brown, a physician who began his

Bloomsburg medical practice in 1887 after moving from Mifflinville. He later willed his home to the Methodist Church to serve as a parsonage. Following the death of his sister Dorothy in 1936, the house was used as the church parsonage until 1962.

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249 Market Street

The Yorks Mansion was the original home of Frederick G. Yorks, who was a director of the Bloomsburg Silk Mills, founded in 1888. It was designed by Williamsport architect Meade B. Ritter in a Georgian Style. Meade began construction in 1905,

but took ill and passed away in March 1906. His brother Verus took over, with the mansion completed in early 1907. Among its many features are a monumental portico with Corinthian column, an ornamentation of garlands of fruit incorporating the pineapple, a sign of hospitality, and a keystone above all windows. Formerly on the site was the second Presbyterian Church building, a Georgian Style chapel which later became the Cummings & Verdy Company, a chewing gum manufacturer. Walk down Third Street and note the carriage house on the corner of Whiteman Avenue.

225 Market Street

The Bloomsburg Public Library was designed by

Philadelphia architect Verus T. Ritter in a High Georgian Revival style. Features include an engaged stone façade and pedimented gable roof. Note the stone relief depicting the shield from the Pennsylvania

coat of arms in the triangular pediment. An outcome of Bloomsburg’s centennial celebration in 1902 was the establishment of a free public library. It began in rented rooms until this building was erected in 1925 and opened for the first time on January 30, 1926. The addition at right was completed in 1998.

This concludes Tour 2

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Fifth Street

Market Square

Tour 2 MapGuide

26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32.

33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38.

230 Market Street 240 Market Street 300 Market Street 414 Market Street 434 Market Street 450 Market Street 401 Market Street

345 Market Street 325 Market Street 317 Market Street 311 Market Street 249 Market Street 225 Market Street

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Architecture Key

Queen Anne Style

Architectural features include an asymmetrical façade; dominant front-facing gable, often cantilevered out beyond the plane of the wall below; round, square, or polygonal tower(s); a porch covering part or all of the front facade; patterned wood shingles, terra cotta tiles, relief panels, or wooden shingles over brickwork; bay windows; horizontal bands of leaded windows; monumental chimneys.

Georgian Style

Architectural features include a symmetrical form and fenestration (window placement); multi-pane windows (6-20 panes in each sash); side-gabled or hipped roof; stone or brick walls; transom window over paneled front door; pediment or crown and pilasters at front entry; cornice with dentils; water table or belt course; corner quoin.

Colonial Revival Style

Architectural features include a columned porch or portico; front door sidelights; pedimented door, windows or dormers; broken pediment over front door; pilasters; symmetrical façade; double-hung windows, often multi-paned; bay windows or paired or triple windows; wood shutters often with incised patterns; decorative pendants; side gabled or hipped roofs; cornice with dentils or modillions.

Federal Style

Architectural features include a symmetrical form and fenestration; elliptical fan light over paneled front door; side lights flanking front door; cornice with decorative moldings, low pitched side-gable or hipped roof; double hung windows and crown or entry porch; tripart or Palladian window; curving or polygonal projections.

Italianate Style

Buildings highlighted in the architecture key may be followed by the words “Revival Style”. This refers to Revivalism, which in architectural terms is the use of visual styles that replicate the style of an earlier architectural era. Architectural features include a cornice with decorative brackets; widely overhanging eaves; two or three stories in height; tall, narrow windows; curved (segmental) arches over windows or doors; elaborate window crowns, often arched or with brackets and pediments; single story porches, either full width or entry porticos; low pitched roof; cupola or square tower with bracketed cornice, and quoins.

Tour 3: Fifth Street Turn right at the intersection with West Fifth Street and head west across the intersection with Jefferson Street.

Tour 3 Map on page 25.

This tour is approximately 1/2 mile in length.

203 West Fifth Street

A Craftsman style home noted for its cedar shake shingles and a large stone chimney, designed by Williamsport architect Verus T. Ritter, with builder E. E. Shaffer of Jersey

Shore. It was built for local photographer Ralph Phillips, who moved in with his family in late March 1910 and lived in the house for 40 years until his death in 1950.

503 Market Street

John A. Funston built this Colonial Revival style house with Federal and Georgian elements in 1868, the year after moving from Jerseytown to Bloomsburg. He was actively involved in civic and business affairs, founding the Bloomsburg Banking

Company and was president of the Bloomsburg Water Company. Following his death, the home was purchased in 1907 by Paul Eyerly, co-founder of the Morning Press newspaper.

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4 West Fifth Street

Thomas Gorrey designed this Colonial Revival Style house, c.1890, which originally had a balustraded deck above the porch. Former home of Isabella and C. Clinton Peacock, who served as a Town Councilman.

42 East Fifth Street

This Victorian Eclectic style house was built by Judge Elijah R. Ikeler for his son Fred, an attorney, and wife Anna. Its Byzantine influence is shown by the onion dome, with radially skewed slate roof. Note

the giant owls placed on the gables to deter birds. The couple moved in for Christmas 1894 but sadly, Anna died a year and a half later. In 1898 Fred sold the house to his brother Frank, also an attorney and onetime Mayor of Bloomsburg.

60 East Fifth Street

A Queen Anne Style home designed by Bloomsburg architect Louis Bernhard. Note the heavily corbelled chimney situated at the rear corner of the building. The porch is a later addition. John

Funston had the house built as the residence of his daughter Sarah and son-in-law Paul Wirt, who moved in after their marriage on January 1, 1878.

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106 East Fifth Street

A Colonial Revival style home built by Benjamin W. Jury for Joseph Ratti, who moved in with his brother in July 1891. Ratti had founded

the Bloomsburg Silk Mills three years before and was the benefactor of what is now the Bloomsburg Hospital. Mr. Ratti, a first cousin of Pope Pius XI, died while visiting Italy in 1906. The present porch with Corinthian columns replaced an earlier one and the two-story addition on the east side was completed by William Ritter, father of Verus, in 1905.

119 East Fifth Street

This Queen Anne-Victorian Eclectic style house from 1884 was the original home of early industrialist John Lockard, who manufactured railroad cars. The G.M. and J.K. Lockard Car Works (est.1872) was later known as the Bloomsburg Car Company,

and finally the American Car & Foundry Company. The interior contains the same type of lumber used in railroad cars, while the porch was added by Dr. Miller, who bought the house in 1906.

49 East Fifth Street

Robert Neal built this Italianate style house

following his 1873 marriage to Eleanor Clark. A son of iron manufacturer William Neal, Robert earned a degree in mining engineering and helped manage the family’s iron mines and blast furnaces, along with his brother Clinton, in a company popularly known as the “Bloom Furnace.”

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37 East Fifth Street

Louis Bernhard, a watchmaker and jeweller, was born in Bavaria, apprenticed to a jeweller in Wilkes-Barre, and moved to Bloomsburg in 1858. Also an artist and architect, he designed commercial

buildings on Main Street, the Episcopal Rectory, and this Italianate-Victorian style residence in 1868, among others.

3 East Fifth Street

A c.1870 Queen Anne style home, in 1871 it became the residence of the editor of the Columbian newspaper, Henry L. Dieffenbach, and in 1880 of local farmer Douglas Hughes, who added the porch. Four years later it was purchased by attorney Levi E. Waller. In one

of the more notorious incidents in Bloomsburg history, the house was bombed on September 11, 1896, destroying windows and the front porch, in an attempt to do mortal harm to the Waller family. It was later the residence of Miss Sarah (Sadie) Van Tassel, who lived there until her death in 1937. She was a board member and benefactor of the Bloomsburg Public Library and owner of the first electric car in Bloomsburg.

27 West Fifth Street

A Colonial Revival style home with Common Bond brickwork. The site of an earlier house owned by David J. Waller, it was torn down and the current structure built in 1929 for Charles T. Vanderslice, co-owner of the Morning Press.

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Market Street

Tour 3 MapGuide

39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44.

45. 46. 47. 48. 49.

119 East Fifth Street 49 East Fifth Street 37 East Fifth Street 3 East Fifth Street 27 East Fifth Street

203 West Fifth Street 503 Market Street 4 West Fifth Street 42 East Fifth Street 60 East Fifth Street 106 East Fifth Street

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This brochure was made possible by funding provided by the Columbia County Commissioners, the Montour County Commissioners, the Columbia Montour Visitors Bureau, and by Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania’s Office of Research & Sponsored Programs and the Provost’s Office. The CMVB cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information printed in this guide. The CMVB is not responsible for misprints or mistakes.

Special thanks to:

Columbia County Historical and Genealogical Society

Bloomsburg University’s Archivist and Historian Robert Dunkelberger

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