{"nrhp_refnum":"100011135","name":"Dickson Works (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["Starcor Building","A&amp","P Bakery and Warehouse Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"225 & 215 Vine Street","address_restricted":false,"city":"Scranton","county":"Lackawanna County","state":"PA","lat":null,"lon":null,"geom_source":null},"listed_date":"2024-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The only surviving structure of the original Dickson Works, a large industrial complex in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It is a long three-story brick industrial building with a tower at the corner of Vine Street and Penn Avenue.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the Dickson Works ranked among the leading industries of Scranton and held a high place in the state and country for more than 50 years. Founded in 1856 to repair and manufacture mine machinery and boilers, it grew with the Lackawanna Valley coal industry and was the parent of many later Scranton industries. The building documents that industrial growth over more than a century.","narrative":"Scranton's Penn Avenue and Vine Street corner holds the only surviving structure of the original Dickson Works, an industrial complex begun in 1856 as Dickson and Company. The brick building is about 100 by 300 feet and three stories high, with a tower roughly 100 feet tall at the corner. Its double-pitched roof has clerestory lights along most of its length, and exposed wooden trusses with wrought-iron tie members. Thomas Dickson, later president of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, founded the shop to repair and manufacture mine machinery and boilers. The company employed 600 men by 1880 and exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, where it received a diploma of highest merit and a medal. It is significant as a major Scranton industrial enterprise whose products reached markets worldwide, and as the parent of several later local manufacturers. The building was vacant from 1942 to 1962 before the Stacor Equipment Company moved in.","period_of_significance":"1856-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early 19th Century industrial building","criteria":[],"status_note":"Vacant from 1942 to 1962; the Stacor Equipment Company moved in in 1963 and remains a tenant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.125485-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002251.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998095","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lackawanna-county/dickson-works-boundary-increase-100011135/"}