Tour 2: Market Street
This tour is approximately 1/4 mile in length.
Tour 2 Map on pages 18.
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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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