{"nrhp_refnum":"80003550","name":"Landis Shoe Company Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N. Chestnut and E. Broad Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Palmyra","county":"Lebanon County","state":"PA","lat":40.31046565400004,"lon":-76.59684627599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-08-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick shoe factory building in Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, set on a high local limestone foundation. Its principal exterior feature is a square three-story tower on East Broad Street.","why_significant":"The nomination describes the building as a substantial and very intact example of the industrial structure type common in America from the 1840s through the early 1900s, with construction methods that persisted late. It is presented as a rare surviving late 19th and early 20th century industrial building in Lebanon County and as a link to the shoe industry that was central to Palmyra for about 70 years. It is also associated with entrepreneur Jacob Landis.","narrative":"Brick shoe factory on Broad and Chestnut Streets in Palmyra, three stories high and built on a limestone foundation with massive wooden joists and beams. The building was rebuilt after a fire destroyed the earlier frame factory in November 1905, with the southern section completed by June 1906 and an additional northern section added in 1911. Its square three-story tower on East Broad Street is the focal point of the exterior, and the corbelled brickwork, segmental arches and six-over-six sash give it a consistent design. The Landis Shoe Company operated here as production grew from about 500 pairs of shoes daily in 1904 to 4000 by 1920, when the firm merged with G. R. Kinney Co. The building is regarded as an intact and late example of a traditional industrial form and as a rare survivor of Lebanon County's late nineteenth and early twentieth century factories. It also commemorates Jacob Landis, a leading local entrepreneur and real estate developer.","period_of_significance":"1905-1906","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The building has served no commercial or industrial functions since the late 1960's.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:34.313949-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003550.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003550/72eecba090-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003550/72eecba090-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landis_Shoe_LebCo_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:Landis_Shoe_LebCo_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996869","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landis_Shoe_Company_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15241471"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lebanon-county/landis-shoe-company-building-80003550/"}