{"nrhp_refnum":"12000221","name":"Scranton Lace Company","other_names":["Scranton Lace Curtain Manufacturing Co.","Scranton Lace Curtain Co."],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1315 Meylert St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Scranton","county":"Lackawanna County","state":"PA","lat":41.42993773500007,"lon":-75.65855136899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-04-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic lace manufacturing complex of 32 interconnected brick and concrete buildings on an 8.4-acre site in the Green Ridge neighborhood of north Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It was begun in 1891 and grew to its full extent by 1946.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex was one of the largest Nottingham lace manufacturing complexes in the Lackawanna Valley and Pennsylvania in the mid-twentieth century, making it significant under Criterion A for Industry. It is also argued to be the area's largest surviving early to mid-twentieth-century industrial facility, significant under Criterion C for Architecture.","narrative":"Begun in 1891 in north Scranton, the Scranton Lace Company grew from five brick buildings into a complex of 32 interconnected structures by 1946, arranged around three courtyards between Meylert and Albright Avenues. Mathias Stipp built the original buildings, and the Morton C. Tuttle Company and A. J. Sordoni later erected others. The clock tower, large multi-light steel windows, and reinforced concrete bays give the complex its industrial character. The company was founded as the Scranton Lace Curtain Manufacturing Company and made Nottingham lace curtains on secondhand looms brought from England. By the mid-twentieth century it was among the largest Nottingham lace producers in Pennsylvania and was reported to be the last such producer in the United States when it closed in 2002. The complex is regarded as the area's largest surviving example of an early to mid-twentieth-century industrial plant that adapted to changing markets, with its original factory form and interiors largely intact.","period_of_significance":"1891-1959","architect_builder":"Mathias Stipp (builder of the original five buildings); Morton C. Tuttle Company (builder); A. J. Sordoni (builder)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian, Craftsman, Moderne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The property is described as in very good condition with limited broken windows; the company closed the factory in 2002.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.114698-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/12000221.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000221/15cbf8511e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000221/15cbf8511e-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scranton_Lace_Company_Scranton_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scranton_Lace_Company_Scranton_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998119","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scranton_Lace_Company","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7438749"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lackawanna-county/scranton-lace-company-12000221/"}