{"nrhp_refnum":"80003515","name":"Kreider Shoe Manufacturing Company","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"155 S. Poplar St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Elizabethtown","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.148814456000025,"lon":-76.60573122299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-06-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-to-four story brick shoe factory built around a courtyard in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, completed in 1905 on a limestone foundation. Its U-shaped plan and largely unaltered exterior survive substantially intact.","why_significant":"The building is linked to the shoe industry, which was of key importance to Elizabethtown's economy for about half a century. The nomination regards it as the finest early twentieth-century industrial building in Elizabethtown and as comparable favorably with other industrial buildings in Lancaster County. Its late Victorian forms and materials are presented as an example of factory architecture of the period c. 1890-1920.","narrative":"Completed in 1905 on South Poplar Street in Elizabethtown, this brick shoe factory rises three to four stories around a central courtyard, with a U-shaped plan and a limestone foundation. Its exterior walls are laid in common bond and have never been painted. The South Poplar Street facade is articulated by 21 repetitive bays with raised brick pilasters, dentils and a corbelled parapet cornice. The Kreider Shoe Manufacturing Company bought the unimproved lot in 1904 for $1,000. Its construction marks a period when shoe manufacturing was central to the town's economy for roughly fifty years. The company, later known as The A. S. Kreider Co., was one of the two leading shoe manufacturers in Lancaster County during the 1920s. The building is regarded as the finest early twentieth-century industrial structure in Elizabethtown and as a tangible record of the regional shoe trade through about 1954, when the property was sold.","period_of_significance":"1905","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The exterior is described as about 90% intact, with the company later renamed The A. S. Kreider Co. and the property sold in 1954 to the Elizabethtown Garment Company.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.248722-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003515.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003515/ae8597f6ca-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003515/ae8597f6ca-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Niagara","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreider_Shoe_Manufacturing_Company.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Niagara</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreider_Shoe_Manufacturing_Company.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995431","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreider_Shoe_Manufacturing_Company","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6436595"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/kreider-shoe-manufacturing-company-80003515/"}