{"nrhp_refnum":"83004223","name":"Wagner's, Charlie, Cafe","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"30 E. Grant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lancaster","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.03907456700006,"lon":-76.30555243799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-12-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story red brick former hotel and tavern on the southwest corner of East Grant Street and Lennox Lane in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, built in 1891-1892.","why_significant":"The building is said to be the only surviving hotel or tavern built in center city Lancaster in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. It is also a rare commercial work by C. Emlen Urban from early in his career, and its intact exterior is presented as a fine example of late Victorian eclecticism. The original barroom ceiling of pressed metal is cited as one of the earliest dated revival Adamesque ceilings in the city.","narrative":"Built in 1891-1892 on the southwest corner of East Grant Street and Lennox Lane in Lancaster, this three-story red brick building was designed by architect C. Emlen Urban and served as a small hotel and tavern for seventy-one years after its completion. Its corner tower, topped by a pyramidal tiled roof, along with its corbelled brickwork, pressed metal frieze and terra cotta lunettes, gives it a Romanesque Revival character with Queen Anne and Byzantine-inspired details. Favored by lawyers because of its proximity to the Lancaster County Courthouse, it is significant as the only surviving hotel or tavern built in center city Lancaster during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Its original barroom retains a pressed metal ceiling with bell flowers, anthemions and floral rosettes, an early instance of the revival of Adamesque motifs in the city. The exterior is regarded as entirely intact to its original design, and the building is also the only extant commercial work in the Romanesque Revival style documented as designed by Urban.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"E. Emlen Urban (architect)","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival with Queen Anne and Byzantine-inspired decorative motifs","criteria":[],"status_note":"Excellent condition, unaltered, on 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 17:11:33.893889-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/83004223.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004223/cd1fdab8c5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004223/cd1fdab8c5-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charlie_Wagner_Cafe_La_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:Charlie_Wagner_Cafe_La_PA.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/71996077","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Wagner%27s_Cafe","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5085653"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/wagners-charlie-cafe-83004223/"}