The Shoe House is an American roadside landmark from the great age of the automobile after World War II. It was constructed to advertise “the shoe wizard,” Mahlon Haines, and his forty-plus shoe stores in central Pennsylvania. The nearly three-story structure is built of wood frame covered with wire lath and cement to create the shoe form. The shoe motif appears throughout the site from the leaded glass windows, one of which is a portrait of the owner, to the dog house and the
Haines Shoe House
1948, Frederick J. Rempp. 195 Shoe House Rd., off PA 462, 1.9 miles southwest of Hallam