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Payne-Shoemaker Building

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1929, Clayton Lappley. N. 3rd and Pine sts.
  • (© George E. Thomas)
  • (William E. Fischer, Jr.)

Harrisburg's twentieth-century boom led to the establishment of several architectural firms that supplanted Miller I. Kast and brought commercial modernism to the city. Lawrie and Green found a niche in public commissions, while Clayton Lappley was the principal commercial architect with a circuit of commissions that reached to Carlisle, Mechanicsburg, and Lancaster. Here he essayed a blonde brick and limestone tower notable for its streamlined verticality and its crowning octagonal cupola containing the elevator penthouses. Lappley also designed Market Street Trust at 1006 Market Street (1921).

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George E. Thomas
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George E. Thomas, "Payne-Shoemaker Building", [Harrisburg, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-02-DA16.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 2

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, George E. Thomas, with Patricia Likos Ricci, Richard J. Webster, Lawrence M. Newman, Robert Janosov, and Bruce Thomas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 346-347.

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