Pottsville Republican from Pottsville, Pennsylvania • 6

POTTSVILLE (PA.) REPUBLICAN EVENING HERALD SATURDAY-SUNDAY, NOVEMSER 14-15, 1938 mmm OF TV (til RANK f)Yi NU it. lit 1 lit '7 hill ''j' ill ill if 606 Mahantongo St, (fictionalized as Lantcnengo Street). Poltsville Modeled after a New York City townhouse, the home was sold to the O'Haras by the Yuengling family In 1914. John O'Hara started his writing career there In his third-floor bedroom. One of his most famous short stories, The Doctor's Son," was set there.

O'Hara left the county in Listed May 22, 1978. th WlDitfHMIW HI Hi 133 W. Broad Tamaqua The three-story Federal-style building housed Tamaqua oldest bank. It was built in 1850 of red brick with a white marble first-floor facade. In 1 865, the bank moved across the street to the building that today houses the Tamaqua Historical Society and incorporated as the First National Bank of Tamaqua.

A private residence today, the Anthracite Bank is the former home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Beard; he was a local businessman and historian. Listed Sept 13, 1978. 1440 Mahantongo Pottsville The 1913 mansion was home to the grandson of the Yuengling brewery founder.

Frank Yuengling was also an author and third brewery president Donated by the Yuengling family to the Schuylkill County Council for the Arts in 1 978, the SCCA operates It as the Arts and Ethnic Center. East Bruaswick Towashlp (next to Smith's Country Inn) Built in the late 1700s, the 2 12-story structure at Cold Run and Church Street operated until 1 938. The equipment Including wooden gears used to grind farmers' grain into feed is still there. Inn keeper Harvey Smith nominated the mill for the National Register. Listed Dec.

18, 1978. "i-p 4,1 I H' rd tt 205 S. Tulpehocken St, Pine Grove The home was built in 1823-25 by a borough founder and early industrialist, Peter Filbert, for Christian Lay, who knew George Washington as a boy. It retains its original wood siding. Owner Marjorie W.

Mattox has further restored the home over the last 25 years, and created two apartments on the third Mattox lives there with her brother, Richard J. Wheeler, the noted author of 17 U.S. history books. Listed July 23, 1980. dripJ I ll III iti 1 "-fT 0 1 If Jb "'2.

1 ft Fifth and Mahantongo streets, Pottsville The brewery was built in 1 831 to replace the 1 829 brewety that Trademark Office just this week has the longest uninterrupted burned on a site across from today's City Hall. "America's Oldest history of management by a single family, five generations with a Brewery" that claim was reaffirmed by the U.S. Patent and sixth in readiness. Listed Feb. 1,1985.

13 ,1 T-iv i- vis; 1 iT 1 1 1,1 -NS Tamaqua HI South Tulpehocken Street and vicinity (including West Market Street from Third Street to Progress Avenue, and Centre Street from Laurel Boulevard to the Mount Carbon line.) It was one of the largest historic districts in the state when nominated by the Pottsville Business Association and then-President Steven D. Cotler with the intent of making tax credits available for historically sensitive renovations. The Philadelphia Reading station was built in 1874 as Tamaqua was developing into a major anthracite railroad hub. It replaced one ttiat burned down the year before. Here.

Doris Day awaits a train in the 1940s. The station dosed in 1963. A nonprofit organization, Tamaqua SOS (Save Our Station), formed in 1991 to restore the station, a work in progress. Listed Dee. 26, 1985.

An important transportation center on the Union Canal during the mid-19th century, the borough has the largest and best-preserved collection of high-style and vernacular 19th- and early 20th-century architecture in western Schuylkill County. The centerpiece is South Tulpehocken Street, the borough's main thoroughfare, but the district includes streets that branch off it. Also Included is the home of Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Conrad Richter, author of a best-selling trilogy, "The Awakening Land," comprising "The Trees," The Fields and The Town." His "Light In The Forest" was made Into a Disney movie in the 1960s. Listed Dec. 31, 1987.

ft includes 400 properties in a downtown once known as little Philadelphia" for its size and variety of buildings, including the largest collection of terra cotta storefronts east of the Susquehanna River. The survey took two years. Listed March 1,1982. Photos by ANDY MATSKO, MARK NANCE, JOHNATHAN PAROBY.