Results tagged “Central Market” from York Town Square

This is one of two dormers that remained in place after renovation of the old Dempwolf-designed York County Courthouse into a York County administrative center. The dormer is an example of the design touches the York, Pa.-based Dempwolf family of architects gave to their buildings. Background posts: Downtown thrived in post-World War II York, Pa., What was famed architect John Dempwolf's own house like and How to accurately restore a historic home.

Some students in a recent session of my OLLI class at Penn State York were unfamiliar with the Dempwolf brothers and their family successors who designed so many significant buildings in York.

The Dempwolfs' work was so pervasive around York that it's easy to overlook it in plain sight.

J.A. and Reinhardt Dempwolf headed the Victorian-era firm whose shaping of York's skyline lasted well into the 20th century.

The following story, taken from York County's 250th anniversary publication "Builders and Heroes," tells more about the Dempwolfs:

The market sheds in York, Pa.'s Centre Square are a pile of rubble after they are pulled down in the middle of the night in late June 1887. The sheds had been in the square since the county's earliest days and would never be replaced at that location, nor would any other building gain a permanent site in the middle of the square. Background posts: There were 5, count 'em, 5 York markets, A square courthouse in middle of York's Centre Square? and Late June marks pivotal moments in York history.

Continuing the series of iconic photos - photos that capture layered moments - from York County, Pa.:

OK, quick York Town Square review quiz.

The Dreamwrights have opened their new house to the public.

The theater group recently remodeled their building, a former market house where west end farmers could sell their goods to residents of surrounding neighborhood.

At one time, five market houses served as the hub for York County's farmers to sell their wares.

Where were York's other four covered market houses? ...

A former York market house is hidden in plain view.

Dreamwrights, a local theater group, is quite correctly touting rehab plans for their large brick playhouse on Carlisle Avenue.

For years, I've wondered about the original use of that beautiful building... .