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This is a 6 unit Apartment Building with historical link to the town of Hummelstown, Pennsylvania.
The apartments offer a very clean non-smoking living environment within a quaint residential setting. All units have been remodeled and are suitable for consultants, professionals, advanced degree students and professors seeking the charm and character of living in a non-commercial "home-like" setting.
Access to Hershey Medical Center, Hershey town, Hershey attraction complex, etc. is easy and just a few miles away.
Entrance to the building is through a secured front door to a lobby. The building has a coin operated laundry area as well as off street parking and a large lot for use by all tenants
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The Lodge - 45-47 East High Street
This large dwelling is a former lodge hall erected by members of the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics in 1888. The meeting hall was situated on the third floor. Its dedication was marked by a parade of 1,000 men of visiting councils of Jr. O.U.A.M.
Due to an excessively hot summer in 1897 and increased membership, according to the Hummelstown Sun article of that year, the Chapter voted to raise the roof of the structure making the ceiling of the Council hall 10 feet higher. Also added was a 14-foot rear addition. Interior pictured of the hall, after the improvement, show an arched ceiling, a dais that went around three side of the room, and coves containing the "thrones" of the officers.
Other organizations which met in the hall included the Patriot Order, son of America (a veterans organization), the short-lived Knights of the Golden Eagle, and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty (the last group was organized by the Junior Order). The local chapter of the Modern Woodmen of the World also used the hall. The Hummelstown chapters of these organizations had declines in the forties and probably the last organization to meet in the hall was a Girl Scout troup.
The Junior Order, once attracting the community's most respect and influential citizens, became the victim of improvement in transportation which changed the habits of the once stay-at-home population. Streetcars and automobile drastically altered life as it was known before the 20th century. Memorabilia from the lodge building is housed in the Pennsylvania State Museum and the Hummelstown Historical Society.
Architecture: Build during the Victorian period, when the use of ornamentation was at its height, the Lodge building is somewhat plain. The Lodge is a simple clapboard building with a wide plain cornice and wrought-iron cresting on the hipped-roof
Above is the 20th in a series of articles on Historical Homes and Buildings in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. The basic information was compiled in 1985 by Jean and Kirk Seibert and edited in 2000 by Sara Marian Seibert.
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