Jax Stumpes: Honesdale, PA II (11/25/2024)

Monday, November 25, 2024

Honesdale, PA II (11/25/2024)

Monday, November 25, 2024 (continued)

Walking Tour of Honesdale, PA Part II:

Part II combines the Government and Public Services Tour, the Religious Heritage Tour, and the Commerce and Industry Tour:

105 Park Street (1911, by McCormick &
French as an armory) is now the YMCA

103 Park Street (c 1900, as the Irving Cut Glass
Company, Incorporated warehouse)

Tallman Bridge (2009) over the Lackawaxen River

1113 Church Street/First Baptist Church (1845,
in Greek Revival style)

1019 Church Street/Central United Methodist
Church (1874, in Gothic Revival style)

1018 Church Street, found-object sculpture

201 10th Street/First Presbyterian Church
(1866-1868, by J P Huber in
Romanesque Revival style)

303 10th Street/Nielsen House (1886, in
Queen Anne Spindlework style)

929 Court Street/Judge Charles P Waller House (c 1843,
in Greek Revival style with 1860s Italianate porch)

921 Court Street/Walk of Honor (2016) lists all Wayne County
deceased armed service veterans with a code for their burial site

Wayne County Walk of Honor Memorial

320 10th Street/Old Stone Jail (c 1858)

Note the narrow windows of the jail cells

Civil War Memorial (1869)

Central Park

925 Court Street/Wayne County Courthouse
(1880, by J A Wood in Second Empire style)

901 Court Street/Dimmick House (1859,
in Second Empire style)

922 Church Street/Brown House (c 1850, in
Greek Revival style) was once the residence of
Dick Smith, who wrote the lyrics for Winter Wonderland

914 Church Street/Kingsbury House (1840s,
in center-gable Italianate style)

910 Church Street/Crane House (1845 in Greek Revival
style, 1877 alteration in Queen Anne style)

210 9th Street/Grace Episcopal Church
(1854, in Gothic Revival style)

827 Church Street/Rectory (1876, by Calvert Vaux
in Gothic Revival style)

815 Church Street/Whitney House (c 1850, in
gable-front Italianate style with Queen Anne gable
decoration), has been used since 1978 as offices for
the magazine Highlights for Children

804 Church Street/Russell House (c 1861, in
Italianate style); in 1965 it became the headquarters
for the magazine Highlights for Children

704 Church Street/St John's Evangelical
Church (1904, in Gothic Revival style)

631 Court Street/Temple Beth Israel (1856,
in Greek Revival style)

214 6th Street/Former Katz Underwear Company
(1898, 1912 addition) (KSS)

110 6th Street/Former National Hotel
(1868, in Italianate style) (KSS)

Hmm, we just walked under that utility pole

416 Church Street/St Mary Magdalen
Catholic Church (1860, in a mix of
Greek Revival and Gothic Revival styles (KSS)

Tamiko is posing by a statue of Christ
in order to see leftover snow from a
storm on November 21-22 (KSS)

122 Terrace Street/St John Evangelist Church
(1878, in Gothic Revival style with
bell tower added in 1953) (KSS)

649-613 Main Street/Centennial Block (1875,
by J A Wood in Italianate style)

614-622 Main Street/Murray Company Buildings
(on R 1870s, in Italianate style, on L 1907)

733 & 717 Main Street/Bankers Row

717 Main Street/Wayne County Savings Bank
(1924, in Neoclassical style)

733 Main Street/Honesdale National Bank
(1896, in Richardsonian Romanesque style)

810 Main Street/Former Delaware & Hudson Canal Company
Office Building (1860) is now the Wayne County Historical
Society headquarters with library and museum (KSS)

In the museum is a replica of the Stourbridge
Lion steam locomotive (1829), which was
the first foreign-built locomotive used in
the United States; it was meant to haul coal
wagons, but was found to be too heavy for
the track; the original is displayed at the
B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore (KSS)