A beautiful old building we saw while geocaching
41.354656, -76.691843
This is apparently the old Essick Hotel Casino.
The hotel, a massive summer resort, was lost in a fire in 1916, but the casino still stands.
Casino At Essick Heights
It was in later years a bowling alley.
The windows are beautiful colored glass!
Note - There's a window in the Hughesville Historical Society, and several others Hughesville buildings with the same style of stained glass windows. I could be wrong, but I seem to remember seeing the same style of glass in the Sonestown Train Station too.
As someone else mentioned, it appears to be rather "rustic" stained glass work, and was possibly locally made, in the East Lycoming county area?
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The Hotel Essick
Highland Lake Pa
The Hotel Essick, Essick Heights PA
First opened to the public on June 1, 1889
The hotel was designed by William Laird and bears a striking resemblance the the Raymond Hotel in Eagles Mere which he also designed.
Burnt to the ground April 1916
The small village that grew up around the hotel was known as Essick Heights, but later known as Camp Genessee.
In 1902, Dr. Essick brought the new electric light to his hotel. He purchased two Bates and Edmonds units and had them placed in a stone powerhouse about 200 yards from his hotel. Each unit provided 5kw of direct current so it is hard to imagine how well a four story hotel could have been illuminated! But an old newspaper clipping states that the hotel could be seen from Hughesville, in the Muncy valley eight miles south and it was considered a "modern marvel".
However, the grand adventure was short lived and, as Sherry Gardner states in her book "Around Picture Rocks," the Essick Hotel opened on June 1, 1889 and was destroyed by fire on Nov. 15, 1916. This situation forced Dr. Essick into bankruptcy and ended any further development of Highland lake.
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Appears to be out of print
From the Hughesville Mail, 1904
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