Market Street Lewisburg, Through The Decades

The first full building shown here is 100 Market Street.  The same building still stands there today.  Next is 44  Market Street, Then the Presbyterian Church, which is 18 Market Street, then 17 Market Street, and the house on the corner is 15 N. Water Street (today, the Packwood house).  Beside the Packwood house you can see the standpipes.  

Clip from the 1884 map of Lewisburg.  River is to the left.  

Notice there is only one standpipe.  It was completed shortly before this map was made.  The second one was added in 1897, so we know the photo above was taken after 1897.

Read more about when Lewisburg Got Standpipes

(The stone ruins by the river bridge)

https://susquehannavalley.blogspot.com/2020/01/when-lewisburg-standpipes-lewisburg.html

The American House

Looking down Water Street, at the back of what is today the Packwood House Musuem.  

At the northwest corner of Market & Water, what is now the Packwood house began as a log tavern built by John Pollock sometime between 1795 & 1799

Part of the original tavern walls can be seen inside the Packwood House.
By 1838 it was called the Washington House (there was another Washington House at Market & 2nd St), then Spread Eagle House, and in 1848, American House.  It was at this time that it was enlarged and "vastly improved". In December of 1886 the hotel was sold as public sale.  In 1892 it was converted into a 3 unit apartment.  The Fetherston family purchased the building in 1938.  They remodeled the entire building back into one home, naming it the Packwood House, in honor of the Fetherston Estate in England.  When Edith Fetherson died in 1972, her will established the Fetherston Foundation, with the mission of turning the home into a museum, encompassing Edith's collection of Central Pennsylvania historical and cultural artifacts.
The Museum opened in 1976.

Formerly the American House Hotel, today, then apartments, today the Packwood House

100 Block

North Side Of The Street:

With the Cameron House Hotel on the corner, and the standpipes visible by the river.

The Cameron House hotel was purchased by W. Watkins in 1934.  He renovated it, adding the Mount Vernon porticoes, in 1938.  He also changed the name to The Hotel Lewisburger.

The Lewisburger Hotel, 136 Market Street

South Side Of The Street:

 101 Market Street - The Lewisburg Inn (Today, Brasserie Louis)

The building that is today Brasserie Louis was the first building to have running water in Lewisburg.  It began as a home  built for a local school teacher, in 1825.  J. Merrill Lynn then purchased it, and finished building the structure that stands there today. In 1930 it opened as a boarding house,  and from 1955-2000 it was the Lewisburg Inn. 

135-137 Market Street, The First National Bank 

The bank moved to a new building in 1925

In 1909, a woman ironing in the attic set the bank on fire

106 Market Street Wagners Quality Grocery in 1942
119 Market St, Stamms Radio & TV in 1959

200 Block

 Unsure about this one.  It's labeled 200 block of Market Street...

Before 1918

(Street were added in 1918)

Market Street Looking East From 3rd Street

Showing the horse water trough

The Lewisburg Safe and Trust Company built their new marble building in 1915.

The Street lights were added in 1918, 

North Side of The Street: (Even Numbers)

202 Market Street

232-6 Market Street, W. L. Wainwright

Tobacco & Pool Hall 1892-1950s

(Today this is the building Pandaly Grocery is in)

The Banner Store was later Prowants Clothing Store

228 (and 106) Market St, Wagners Grocery in 1934
230 Market Street, Coles Hardware

202 Market Street, Lentz Pharmacy in 1959
216 Market Street Champion Shoe Repair, Sam Guinta Prop 1942
224 Market Street George Johnson Clothing Store 1942

South Side Of The Street 

219 Market Street, The Lewisburgh  Saturday News Building

South side of the street, Looking West

The Saturday News Building in 1918

Owner & Editor Benjamin K. Focht, with his son, Brown Focht out front

B.K. Focht is the "Father Of Old Age Pensions"  - today social security.

Read more here: https://susquehannavalley.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-father-of-old-age-pensions-bk-focht.html

1919 - Welcome Home Parade

225 Market St, Foodtown (also Keelers Books at one time)
Steningers Restaurant was also the Greyhound Bus Stop. " Bus Stop Burgers."

About the Foodtown Building

"The store building was built in 1831, by John Walls. He operated a dress goods and dry goods store ( John Walls & Sons, Wilson & Walls, several name changes) there, until his death, in 1891. His son, William C.Walls (Billy Walls) continued the store, until his death, in 1941. Billy Walls was also the bank president, at Lewisburg Trust and Safe Deposit Co.. In 1905, Walls rented some store space to the Buffalo Valley Telephone Co., for their office. Later, the store became Keeler's Bookstore, then The University Bookstore, an Army recruiting station, then Matrey's Foodtown. My father purchased the building from Billy Walls' daughter, in 1965" - Paul Matrey

213 Market Street, Grenoble Bro. Jewlers
221 Market Street, Donald R. Ross Photographer in 1942
223 Market Street Lawson's Shoes in 1959
227 1/2 Market St Service Electric in 1959
239 Market St, Lewisburg Trust & Safe Deposit

300 Block

Looking East.  About 1918/20

Looking East

The Newberry Store was 300 Market Street (today, the CVS building). 

This is looking east, towards the river, the buildings ahead are the 200 block.

The large building on the left is the court house (today the post office) and Newberrys is directly across the street.  

1971

South Side Of The Street:

South side of the street, looking east.  Before 1918

Below is a similar view, with the road paved and street lights installed.

1919 Welcome Home Parade

The new Lewisburg Safe & Trust Building was built in 1915

300 Market Street

1961

Bechtels was at 319 Market Street from 1929 to 1955

323 Market Street, Lewisburg Pa

The federal building was built in 1932, dedicated in 1934.  The Federal district court was housed here until 1987, when it moved to Williamsport.  Today Bucknell owns the building, but the Post Office is still on the ground floor.

323 Market Street Bennets Drug & Soda Shop

North Side Of The Street:

Market Street, Looking East From 4th Street

North Side Of The Street

This photo is labeled "J.F. Reber Hardware, Bakers & Pharmacy"

The store to the left is clearly Harry Stahl's grocery, as names on the awning.

In 1921, Rebers Hardware was at 312 Market st.

Looking East From 4th St, South Side of the Street

From the 1913 newspaper

1919  Welcome Home Parade 

This light was removed in 1948.
According to historian Paul Matrey, when the streets were first paved, the brick pattern showed through the pavement.  I've also read that there's a pattern in the brick under the street light here, that indicated a water trough had been here before the light was placed.

Lyons , Plumbing & Heating

300 Block Of Market Street  - prior to J.J. Newberry

1942 - There's a directional keystone marker at the corner in front of the J.J. Newberry store, naming four local towns and the distance to them.Sunbury-10, Harrisburg-64, Mifflinburg-9, Bellefonte-54.

The J.J. Newberry Company opened in Lewisburg on December 5th 1941

A photo of J.J. Newberry with Rea & Derrick next door.

A car drove into the store, 1958

Mayor Tom Summers on left

On Sunday December 27th, the Watkins Building in Lewisburg, which held the J.J. Newberry store, was destroyed by fire.  The building also held 14 apartments, the fire leaving 19 people homeless.

Two months after the  1959 fire at Newberrys, Mr. Watkins purchased the former JPM company building at 232 Market Street as a temporary location for the Newberry Store, until a new store could be built.  In June of that year, Watkins purchased the Baker Building, which was at the time occupied by Rea & Derrick.  The Baker building was torn down, Rea & Derrick moved to a building "farther west on the same block".  "Combined site of the former Watkins and Baker building will give the Newberry firm a Market Street footage measuring 104 feet"

 Looking West

"After fire circa 1959 destroyed the building, W.W.Watkins added that adjoining building to the West in order to enlarge the site and developed the current building after securing a long term lease with J.J.Newberry." - Paul Matrey

Rea & Derrick, Esquire, ?, Lyons, ? Heating Supplies , Newberry

340 Market Street Broughs Clothing Store
(Today, Brushstrokes)

Looking west

Looking at the north side of the street

Dreisbach and Sons's Hardware begins the 400 block of Market Street.

311 Union National Bank
319 Market Street, Bendts in 1959
316 Market St, Daubers Inc in 1959
318 Market Street Fred Zellers Jewler
320 Market St, Lyons Shop
332 Market Herman & Leiser Dry Goods

336 Market Street, Glen Wolf Jewler, Donahoe's Furniture in 1959 (also at 536 in 1959)

400 Block

North Side Of The Street

Dreisbach hardware, before the warehouse was built out back.

400 Market Street,  Dreisbach Hardware

Today this is Barnes & Noble/Bucknell's book store

Dreisbach Hardware, before the fire, with the warehouse addition on the back.

The 1941 Dreisbach Hardware Fire
Read about the 1941 fire here

The rebuilt Dreisbach Hardware Building
Opened June 1942

In August of 1941, The Daily Item reported that The W.W. Watkins building [300 block]  was being remodeled for the J.J. Newberry Store.  The same article reported that steel for "the new building to take the place of the Dreisbach and Son Hardware store, burned last May, is being delayed due to the National Defense program". 

Showing Rea & Derrick, and the traffic light.

434 Market Street  (Building was built in 1868)

402 - Harris Clothing Store in 1941

408 Market Street, Miller & Brown in 1904
422 - Weis Markets 1930s-1963 (Moved to new building in 63)

424 Market Street, Donehower Store

South Side Of The Street:

414 Market Street, The Campus Theater

The Campus Theater was built in 1941. 

1947

409 Market Street, Lewisburg National Bank

417 Market Street Ernest Snyder Jeweler

424 Market Street Harry E. Stein Insurance in 1942, W.L. Donehower in 1959

428 Market Street, The Childrens Center in 1959

430 Market Street, Zearfoss Electric in 1942

434 Market Street, Reish Bro Electrical Supplies in 1959

500 Block

1912, Looking East 

The Union Hotel is on the right.  Today this is Hufnagle Park, the entire block was wiped out by the 1972 Flood.

Market Street. Union Hotel on the left and Joseph Kifolo Shoe Repair on the right.

Drug Store, 522 Market Street in 1893

502 Market Street, Flavios Market in 1942

516 Market St, Lewisburg Gas Company

519 Market Street, Busser Supply Company in 1959

529 Market St, Mensch Insurance Agency in 1942

600 Block

Looking from 6th to 5th Street, 1912
Union Hotel on the right

1972
600 Market St, Town Tavern

610 Market Chappell Jewelers 

700 Block

Looking West From 6th Street

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Aerial Photos:

1883

Possibly 1909

 1969

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NOT MARKET ST

North 2nd st

North Ward School,  and on the south side, the Railroad Depot & The Baker House Hotel

See More of the Baker House Hotel

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Reber Hardware 1922