Sunday, November 12, 2023
On our way back home, we stopped in Northumberland, PA, a town founded in 1772 by Reuben Haines, who wanted to set up an English village on land that was purchased from the Iroquois. Located at the confluence of the North and West branches of the Susquehanna River, it became a transportation and banking center. Northumberland was one of the cities considered as a site of the Pennsylvania state capital.
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Riverview Cemetery has the grave of
Joseph Priestley, co-discoverer of oxygen
and discoverer of other gases, among
his many accomplishments |
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| 296-294 King Street (1888 and c 1802) |
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| 256 King Street (1909, in Colonial Revival style) |
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| 253-255 King Street (1929, with a Neoclassical porch) |
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| 250 King Street (1830s, in early Classical Revival style) |
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| 235 King Street (c 1910, in Neoclassical style) |
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210 King Street (sometime between 1870 and 1889
as the Presbyterian manse, in Queen Anne style) |
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| 217 King Street (1828, with a Neoclassical porch) |
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| 205 King Street (1913, in Prairie Vernacular style) |
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| King Street Park with a war memorial |
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187 King Street/St Mark's Episcopal Church (1847,
with additions in 1875 and 1947, in Carpenter Gothic style) |
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| 151-153 King Street (1790s, in Federal style) |
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| 141 King Street (1900) |
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| King Street Park Gazebo |
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| Front & King Streets/Christ United Methodist Church (1923) |
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| 253 Front Street (c 1895, as a retail store) |
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245 Front Street/Northumberland National Bank
(1926, in Neoclassical Revival style) |
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91-95 King Street (c 1800 with additions in 1830s and
1840s as shops with living quarters on the second floor) |
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The two buildings are separated by
this service passage |
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85 King Street (1834 as the Bank of Northumberland, in
Georgian style with a Neoclassical porch) |
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67 King Street (sometime between 1858 and
1894); note door and window pediments |
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65 King Street (1922 as an office, in modified
International style) |
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| 251 Priestley Avenue (c 1795, used as a tavern) |
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| 284 Priestley Avenue (c 1834) |
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| 10 King Street (1812 and 1776, as the Washington Tavern) |
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| 373 Priestley Avenue (c 1805) |
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| 10 Orange Street (c 1846, in Georgian style) |
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| 429 Priestley Avenue (built as the Union School) |
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472 Priestley Avenue/Joseph Priestley House (1798,
in Georgian style) includes the laboratory where
Priestley isolated carbon monoxide |
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309 Water Street (1770s foundation, 1876 in
Second Empire style) |
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| Leftover Halloween skeleton |
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| 80 King Street (1836, with Greek Revival elements) |
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96 King Street (c 1863, is said to be
in Italianate Victorian style) |
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The Old Log House (c 1770) was moved to Front Street
at Sheetz Avenue in 2008 |
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380 Front Street/Joseph Priestley Memorial Chapel (1834,
said to be in Gothic Revival style) was originally
the Unitarian-Universalist Congregation Church |
Joseph Priestley was a scientist, and also an ordained Unitarian clergyman. His philosophy has resulted in Unitarian Universalism which maintains a respectful curiosity for both science and religion.
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469-471 Front Street (c 1830 and pre-1815, in
Pennsylvania-German style) |
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100 King Street (1814-1828 as the Cross-Keys Inn) is
the Priestley-Forsyth Memorial Library |
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| 122 King Street (1797 foundation) |
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| 130 King Street (c 1837, in Georgian style) |
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| 144 King Street (1930s, in Prairie style) |
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| 168 King Street (c 1890, in Italianate style) |
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Front Street Station (1908-1910 as the Pennsylvania
Railroad passenger station) |
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Front Street Station is now a restaurant that incorporates
two Pullman passenger cars |
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