Stickney Block

Stickney Block

Stickney Block Photo by William E. Fischer, Jr.
Photo 2 of Stickney Block Photo 3 of Stickney Block Dickson Row Dickson Row Dickson Row
1877, William W. Neuer. 108–118 N. Franklin St.

While the town house was never very popular in Wilkes-Barre, several good examples stand just north of the Kirby Memorial Health Center. The earliest is Neuer's fashionable High Victorian block ornamented with front bays and Gothic Palladian windows, presumably built for substantial middle-class tenants. A few steps toward the river at 60–64 W. Union Street, Albert H. Kipp designed the Dickson Row (1904), four houses, now converted into apartments, with steep Dutch-style step-end gables crowning three units and a mansard roof on the fourth. The houses feature French doors opening onto a front terrace.

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