north Second street

south Second street:  
  50 south Second street: The Eastonia - 4-story brick, across from the Post Office at the NE corner of Second and Ferry Streets. Built by 1914 by owner Frank M. Soule as "The Estonia". Also referred to in 1920 as the Estonia Apartments. It was acquired in mid-Century by substantial Easton landowner William Americus...click for more on 50 s. 2nd st.
Northampton St. to Church St: West Side
  201 Northampton Street: Modern Commercial Bldg.
  22-24 North Second Street: Row Houses
  26 North Second Street: Row House
Northampton St. to Church St: East Side
  169 Northampton Street: Bachmann Publick House: Perhaps the oldest stone building in Easton, restored by various groups including the Easton Heritage Alliance. One-time residence of George Taylor, signer of Declaration of Independence. (Map Reference E) Also known (at various times) as the Bachmann Tavern, Shannon's Tavern, and the Easton House Tavern. . . click for more detail.
 
  • 15 North Second Street: Row House
  • 19 North Second Street: Row House
 

21 North Second Street: George Reeder House . . . click for more detail.

 
  • 25 North Second Street: Residence
  • 27 North Second Street: Row House
Church St to Spring Garden St: West Side
 

32 North Second Street: Library Hall
34 North Second Street: Residence

36 North Second Street: Residence

40 North Second Street: Residence

42 North Second Street: Residence
  44 North Second Street: Benjamin Riegel Mansion - 3-1/2 story "Jacobean Revival style" Flemish bond brickwork building, red and blue bricks with white stone block trim; pointed façade dormer; large bay window on 2nd floor, ornate masonry trim over front door. Said (possibly incorrectly) to have been the last building designed by famed architect Stanford White. " White, the designer of the second Madison Square Garden (NY City) and other buildings, was later assassinated by a jealous husband in the Madison Square Roof Garden restaurant in 1906. Built as a retirement home in 1902 by Benjamin Riegel, the paper magnate who founded Riegelsville...click here for more detail.
 

46 North Second Street: Residence
60 North Second Street: Edward Lawall Residence - In 1880 and 1900, the home of Edwin Lawall, a hardware merchant (in 1880), a "gentleman" in 1890, and an insurance agent (in 1900)...  more detail on 60 n. 2nd street.
  62 North Second Street: Row House
  64 North Second Street: Row House
  72 North Second Street: Modern Commercial Bldg.
  204 Spring Garden Street: Bixler/Laubach Mansion - Stone house in Victorian Romanesque style. 3-story stone tower at corner, 2-1/2-story main building with square turrets (one with battlements), scalloped roof peak, dormers, and huge bow window at ground level. Fine stained glass windows. Built before 1893 and occupied by Mrs. J. Elwood (Emma) Bixler. Emma Bixler was the widow of J. Elwood Bixler (jeweler, died 1891 ), a grandson of Christian Bixler III... more detail on 204 Spring Garden.
Church St to Spring Garden St: East Side
  45 North Second Street: Wolf Bldg. and McCartney School - "School-House Hill (also known as "School Hill" ) - East of North Second Street and North of Church Street - became the site of the Easton Union Academy in 1794 - yet another Easton institution initiated by early industrialist Samuel Sitgreaves. It included on its Board such political notables as Thomas Mifflin (first post-Revolution Governor of Pennsylvania ) and Frederick Muhlenberg (first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives ). This "Academy" was not a school in the modern sense, but instead it provided building space to teachers who wished to give private instruction to students. It also provided space for English-language church services in Easton... more detail on 45 no. 2nd st.
  73 North Second Street: Residence

75 North Second Street: Opdyke Residence - This house was built on land originally obtained from the Penn Family in 1802 by Henry Spering. In 1860, coal merchant James F. Randolph lived at 43 North 2nd Street Street (under the numbering scheme in effect at the time), which may have been this house... it is almost certain that Opdyke replaced that house (as well as another one) with his own mansion, probably in the 1890s. ...more info on 75 n 2nd.

 
  77 North Second Street: Row House

79 North Second Street: Peter Brady House - This land was originally obtained from the Penn Family in 1802 by Henry Spering. The acquisition included both Original town Lots 36 and 38, which were contiguous, and included all the property southwards essentially to the Wolf Building property today, and eastwards 230’ to include many of the small lots fronting on Spring Garden Street today. Spering’s purchase also included Original Town Lot No.63, in the middle of the block on the West side of North 2nd Street. Spering was the son of a Tory whose land was confiscated during the Revolution, but who had recovered his family fortunes and become Northampton County Sheriff from 1897-1800... more detail on 79 n 2nd st.
Spring Garden St to Bushkill St: West Side
  201 Spring Garden:   Parking Lot (formerly Fulmer-Bush Mansion) - The corner property had been the site of large stone house used initially as the German Reformed Parsonage, and (after 1816) as the home of Presbyterian Minister David Bishop. Subsequent site of the Henry Fulmer Mansion, then listed as 41 Spring Garden St. under the numbering scheme then in effect. " Fulmer was a merchant in iron and slate. This was occupied after Fulmer's death by the Bush family... more detail on 201 Spring Garden.
  118 North Second Street: Bercaw Residence - 3-story white brick, with south-facing bay window on third floor. In the 1870s and '80s, the home of Abraham Bercaw and his family. Bercaw was a partner in the liquor store in the first floor of the Masonic Hall at the corner of South Third and Ferry Streets (44 South Third St.). " In the early 1870s, the house was numbered 62 North Second Street, under the street numbering scheme then in effect. In 1900, still the home of Katherine Bercaw (apparently the merchant's widow, listed as Catherine in 1880), age 81, with two grown children... more detail on 118 no. 2nd st.
 

122-28 North Second Street: Row Houses

130 North Second Street: Row House

 
134 North Second Street: Sabrina Odenwelder House - House ...currently for sale! you can own this gorgeous victorian. 2-1/2 story red brick "Colonial Revival", with bay window/turret on 2nd and "3rd" floors; dormer. (Map Reference 20) Built circa 1897. In 1900 it was the home of Sabrina Odenwelder (age 61). It was later, at various times, home to Elmer Armstrong, President of Wilson Stove & Manufacturing Co.; Dr. Victor Messinger (a doctor for the public school district); and the Hriskos Family (restaurateurs). ...more detail on 134 no. Second st.
  202 Bushkill Street: Row House
Spring Garden St to Bushkill St: East Side

165 Spring Garden Street: Hackett Mansion - Senator William Clayton Hackett's former home. Senator Hackett donated Hackett Park to the City of Easton in 1914 in accordance with a prior (refused) offer made by his father, Joseph Hackett... The City reconsidered, and asked Senator Hackett (now his father’s heir) to renew his father’s donation offer. W. Clayton Hackett was, at various times, President of Hackett Company, Inc. (men’s clothes), Vice President of the Easton National Bank, Vice President of the Lehigh Water Co., and a Pennsylvania State Senator elected in 1914 and 1918. Hackett died in 1930, and is buried in Easton Cemetery...

 
  111 North Second Street: Michael Lehn Row House
  115 North Second Street: Grotz / George Lehn Row House
  119 North Second Street: William G. Stewart Row House
 

123 North Second Street: Clement / Charles Stewart House
  133-37 North Second Street: Site of Former John Maxwell, Laubach and John Stewart Mansions - Modern single story building. In the 1870s and '80s, a large predecessor building was the John Maxwell residence. " In the early 1870s, the building was listed as 73 North Second Street, under the street numbering scheme then in effect. In 1900 and 1910, George A. Laubach lived here, while William Laubach lived at No. 137... more detail on 133 no. 2nd st.

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