Results tagged “Zion Lutheran Church” from York Town Square

A local developer is turning the Noss House, which once stood atop list of the city's most endangered historic place into apartments. (See additional photos, including one of the room that allows entry to the house's trademark turret, below.) Background posts: Dempwolf's Ashcombe Mansion: 'I spent a fortune on this house. It's crazy', Author: 'York's streetscape features almost every style and era of American architecture' and The real big York County house that little false teeth built.

Strike York's Noss House from the most-endangered list.

Phoenix Property Management has purchased the 382 W. King St. Queen Anne-style structure and is turning it into apartments - or, actually, back into apartments.

According to a York Daily Record/Sunday News story, Herman Noss, operated of a nearby lumber and woodworking business in the 1800s, constructed the house.

That's about right because the structure features elaborate hardwood floors, large windows and moldings from its original construction.

Mahogany is the wood of choice... .

Zion Lutheran, now empty, will become a senior-services agency.

St. Paul's Lutheran and the former Zion Lutheran churches have been in the news recently.

St. Paul's made headlines because a daughter of one of its parishioners was believed to have delivered a bouquet of flowers bearing a note detailing strategic Union defenses to rebel general John B. Gordon during the Civil War.

The Zion building, vacant for a decade, is being turned into a center for senior citizen services. http://www.ydr.com/newsfull/ci_5074715

But the two congregations made the news in the first half of the 1800s, too... .