{"nrhp_refnum":"83004222","name":"Reilly Brothers and Raub Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"44-46 N. Queen St. and 45 N. Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.03907588800007,"lon":-76.30543524999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-11-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large commercial building of brick and stone on the west side of North Queen Street, one-half block north of Penn Square in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It extends through the block to North Market Street in an L-shaped plan, four stories on the facade and five on the rear, and was built in 1910-1911 by Herman Wohlsen.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for regional architectural and commercial history. Its granite, Indiana limestone and copper facade is described as unique for central Lancaster, and it is called the most perfectly preserved of C. Emlen Urban's 1900-1933 commercial buildings in the central business district. It also served the Reilly Brothers and Raub hardware business, which was one of the city's two most important hardware stores in the early twentieth century.","narrative":"Built in 1910-1911 on the west side of North Queen Street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, this large brick and stone commercial block extends through to North Market Street in an L-shaped plan. Herman Wohlsen built it from designs by C. Emlen Urban. The four-story front uses Deer Island pink granite, Indiana limestone and copper, with Tuscan pilasters rising from the second floor to the cornice. The building housed both a showroom and warehouse for Reilly Brothers and Raub, a hardware firm founded in 1888 that was one of the city's two leading hardware stores in the early twentieth century and sold wholesale across southeastern Pennsylvania, northern Maryland and Delaware. Its importance rests on its architecture and commercial history. The facade combines materials rare among central Lancaster commercial buildings of its era, and its exterior is regarded as the most intact of Urban's 1900-1933 commercial buildings in the district. The structure also marks a transition, with wood joists at the rear and structural steel at the front.","period_of_significance":"1900-1933","architect_builder":"Herman Wohlsen (builder); C. Emlen Urban (architect)","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts","criteria":[],"status_note":"Exterior integrity is described as excellent and unaltered, and the building remains at its original site.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:34.386564-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/83004222.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004222/87f873fdfc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004222/87f873fdfc-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reilly_Bros.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reilly_Bros.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"01000956","name":"Lancaster City Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/lancaster-city-historic-district-01000956/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996069","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reilly_Brothers_and_Raub_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7310164"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/reilly-brothers-and-raub-building-83004222/"}