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$4,000,000

Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County

The historic Stegmaier Brewery complex occupies a pivotal position at the eastern gateway to Wilkes-Barre’s central business district. In 1997, the federal government completed an $18 million renovation of the main building, which now houses federal agencies as diverse as the U.S. Postal Service, the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and the Social Security Administration. Additional funding is now needed to complete the renovation of two other buildings within the Stegmaier complex and to return them to practical use.

General Services Administration

Dennis Martin, Keating Building Corporation; Telephone (610) 688-4100

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To be determined

Nescopeck, Luzerne County

Proposed by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the State Park, located along the Nescopeck Creek in Dennison and Butler Townships, is forecast to be the location for a state-of-the-art Environmental Education Center. The educational focus will be on the high quality environment at that location and its relation to the overall ecosystem of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Initial funding has been earmarked by the DCNR to begin infrastructure development. Additional assistance is necessary to earmark development or park/education center facilities.

Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

Roger Fickes, Director, Bureau of State Parks; Telephone (717) 787-6640; and James R. Boyle, President, Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce; Telephone (570) 445-1508

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$600,000

$80,000 (in-kind)

Scranton, Lackawanna County

This new project is being developed by a partnership composed of the University of Scranton, the Lackawanna River Corridor Association, the Pennsylvania American Water Company, Lackawanna Junior College, and the Everhart Museum. The project proposes a multi-objective environmental education and research center focused on the relationship and impacts among the human and natural communities in the watershed of the Lackawanna and Susquehanna rivers. The center will host academic classes and research, and a variety of environmental education programs for primary and secondary students from local school districts and programs for the general public. The center will be based at a former watershed/reservoir caretaker residence along Stafford Meadow Brook at Lake Scranton. The site adjacent to the City of Scranton is surrounded by nearly 20,000 acres of undeveloped, forested, mountainous watershed lands that may be subject to development.

University of Scranton, Lackawanna River Corridor Association, Pennsylvania American Water Company, Lackawanna Junior College, Everhart Museum, Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, US Department of Interior, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

Bernard McGurl, Executive Director, Lackawanna River Corridor Association; Telephone (570) 347-6311

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$50,000

Bloomsburg, Columbia County

On the site of the colonial-era Fort McClure is an historic structure that is owned and maintained by the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The structure is located in the town of Bloomsburg adjacent to the Susquehanna River. The DAR would like to secure funds to do an assessment of repairs and an estimate for flood-proofing the structure or moving it out of the flood-prone area.

Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, U.S. Department of Interior, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Mrs. Helen Linker of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Telephone (570) 271-4500 Ext. 3043

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$800,000

$30,000 (in-kind)

Borough of Archbald, Lackawanna County

Several shifting shanties associated with the Gravity Slope Colliery are located along Laurel Street in Archbald. Shifting shanties were the locker rooms where anthracite coal miners changed from their miners clothes into their street clothes and visa versa at the beginning and end of their shifts underground. The Borough of Archbald is proposing to acquire, stabilize, and revitalize these brick buildings. The Borough is interested in the conservation and restoration, and cultural interpretation of the buildings that are adjacent to a section of the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail. The Borough can contribute in-kind labor and help organize volunteers. It is interested in forming partnerships to further advance the project.

Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

Bernard McGurl, Executive Director, Lackawanna River Corridor Association; Telephone (570) 347-6311

$895,000

$660,000

Northumberland, Northumberland County

This state-owned historic site preserves and interprets the story of the New World’s first internationally known chemist, also a political theorist and Unitarian minister. In the early 1990s, PHMC initiated an extensive long-range program for full interpretation and restoration of the house and laboratory for the public. This effort resulted in extensive archaeological investigation, site preservation and interpretive planning. Reconstruction of the barn, which will house the visitor’s center, began in late 1998 through a capital appropriation of $400,000. National Endowment for the Humanities support resulted in comprehensive landscape preservation and a new interpretive plan. Initial studies for converting a 1926 building on the site into an interpretive center have been finalized. Also planned are installation of central air, humidity, security systems and the replacement of the roof. PHMC has committed more than $260,000 for this work. Additionally, the PHMC would like to stabilize, preserve, and interpret the Priestly Laboratory in partnership with the Friends of the Joseph Priestly House, a 501c(3) non-profit that has secured a generous donation from the American Chemical Society. The match for this donation is not yet secured. The PHMC has completed planning for this effort and is seeking $235,000 as a partnership match.

Donna Williams, Director, and Bureau of Historic Sites, PHMC; Telephone (717) 787-2723

$16,000,000

$8,000,000

Scranton, Lackawanna County

The historic Masonic Temple and Scottish Rite Cathedral has been converted to use as Scranton’s Cultural Center. The PHMC obtained control of the property as part of a larger plan to stabilize and preserve the building envelope and rehabilitate and update the interior and visitor services. The PHMC has committed $8 million for all work related to the building envelope, including roof, walls, fenestration and other work. The Cultural Center is a premier historic resource in Northeastern Pennsylvania and use as a cultural center assures its future security and public enjoyment.

Donna Williams, Director, Bureau of Historic Sites, PHMC; Telephone (717) 787-2723

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$1,000,000

Mount Carmel Borough, Northumberland County

This project directs the historic preservation of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Station, located at the north Turnpike and Railroad Streets. The station is one of three known standing railroad stations built by Lehigh Valley Railroad. The station is located in a floodplain identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Joseph Bass, Borough Manager, Mt. Carmel Borough; Telephone (570) 339-4486 or FAX (570) 339-6022

$2,000,000

Northumberland Borough, Northumberland County

The Shikellamy School District plas to abandon its 2nd Street School in Northumberland in one or two years. The Borough would like to acquire the building and refurbish part of it to create a museum to display the history of the town. The display will include historical documents and memorabilia depicting the influence of the Indians, the railroads, and the extensive railroad yard on the community, and it will contain displays on the Pineknotter history that has been preserved by the Northumberland High School Alumni Association.

Greg S. Moyer, President, Northumberland Borough Council; Telephone (570) 472-3414

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$650,000

$110,000

Sunbury, Northumberland County

Northumberland County Board of Commissioners, through the Northumberland County Planning Commission, proposes to implement an historic restoration of the interior of the County Courthouse. The project focuses on depicting the interior at a particular period in time in history, while removing evidence of other periods. The existing condition of historic features requires repair and limited replacement of a distinctive feature, design, color, and texture of building which was built in 1865 in the Romanesque revival period. The Courthouse is registered with the Northumberland County Historical Preservation data, June 1978, page 15, Site 49, and on the Northumberland County Historic Site Inventory, June 1977, pages 106, 135, and 195, Map #2, Sunbury City - Historical District. Part of the project will be to copy unique records so as to provide future generations with the ability to see these one-of-a-kind records. The purpose is to promote the County as part of the Susquehanna Valley as a desirable tourist destination, thereby stimulating economic growth. Brochures will be a valuable marketing tool that will serve as an attractive, informative guide in promoting Northumberland County's historical and cultural heritage.

SHPO, DCNR

Greg Schoffler, Director, Northumberland County Planning Commission, Administration Center; Telephone (570) 988-4220

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$12,240,000

$2,790,000

Columbia County

Pennsylvania’s third largest concentration of covered bridges can be found in Columbia County. Of these nineteen bridges, Columbia County owns fifteen. The upkeep of these bridges is important not only for transportation needs, but also for the County’s tourism industry. The County has been expending funds for short-term "emergency type" repairs, and the County needs financial assistance for the long-term care of these covered bridges.

PennDOT, TEA-21, Act 26 Funds

Gail Kipp, Columbia County Chief Clerk; Telephone (570) 389-5604

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$2,247,194

$25,000 (Danville Borough)

Danville, Montour County

Danville Borough intends to rehabilitate and convert the now-closed Y.M.C.A. building and the Danville Elks building (both historically significant) into low-income housing for the elderly. The Borough has expended $12,000 to date on a $25,000 feasibility study. When completed, the project will create twenty-five housing units in Danville’s Central Business District.

Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, Federal Community Development Block Grant Program, Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, Federal Home Loan Bank, Federal Historic Tax Credits, Federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits

Tom Graham, Danville Borough Secretary; Telephone (570) 275-3091

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$310,000

Danville, Montour County

Danville Borough owns two historic buildings in downtown Danville. One houses the Borough’s offices (including a community ballroom), and the other houses the Borough’s Police Department. Both structures have been determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Sites. Danville Borough proposes to rehabilitate/restore the two buildings.

Danville Borough also owns and maintains Memorial Park, which serves a testimony to those that served their country in times of war. Many of the monuments are in need of restoration, and a monument in memory of those who fought in the American Revolution needs to be erected.

Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, Pennsylvania Keystone Grant funds, Federal Community Development Block Grant Program

Tom Graham, Danville Borough Secretary; Telephone (570) 275-3091

Mayberry Township, Montour County

This project would restore the historical one-room school house, located in Mayberry Township along SR 2109 (High Road). This restoration would include work on the foundation and floor, as well as provide for handicap accessibility and various other repairs that are needed.

Norma A. Bird, Secretary, Mayberry Township Supervisor; Telephone (570) 271-3088

$210,000

$50,000

Danville, Montour County

The Montour County Board of Commissioners requests grant assistance to fund a comprehensive historic preservation project for the restoration of the exterior of the county’s 1871 courthouse. This project would repair and replace, where necessary and appropriate, the courthouse’s metal roof, flashing, gutters, and downspouts; restore and repair the building’s cornices and cupola, stone foundation, quoins, and front facade. In addition, there are sixty-two arched and circular windows that have suffered extensive damage and must be restored or replaced.

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Thomas E. Herman, Chairman, Montour County Board of Commissioners; Telephone (570) 271-3000

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$488,000

$177,900

Danville, Montour County

The Danville Area School District and several community groups are working together to replace and relocate the school’s current stadium, which is located in the Susquehanna River flood plain and continues to be flooded approximately every four years. The new location is adjacent to the Danville Area Community Center out of the flood plain. Items needed to complete this project include lights, field house / concession area and an all weather track.

Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and Wyoming Valley Flood Authority Mitigation Board

Danville Area School District, Richard Martz, Superintendent or Steven Keifer, High School Principal (570) 275-7575