{"nrhp_refnum":"84003412","name":"Florence Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"643 Adams Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Scranton","county":"Lackawanna County","state":"PA","lat":41.41289055300007,"lon":-75.65627318799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-01-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-story apartment building in Scranton, Lackawanna County, built in 1908 with a U-shaped plan. It stands on a former redevelopment tract, isolated among low-scale garden apartments.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that it was the first multi-story apartment building in Scranton, built by a local businessman to bring big-city apartment living to the city. It reflects the wealth and culture of Scranton's prosperous early twentieth century, and its entrance facade is notable for Georgian Revival and Adamesque detailing.","narrative":"Six-story apartment building in Scranton, built in 1908 to a U-shaped plan with steel and concrete framing beneath brick and stone walls. Its entrance facade has Georgian Revival and Adamesque details, including limestone-faced lower stories, arched first-floor openings with urn-and-swag lunettes, and a projecting limestone frontispiece supported by two Tuscan columns with the name Florence in the frieze. William Kelly, a partner in the Casey and Kelly Brewing Company, had it built as the first multi-story apartment building in the city, modeled on apartment houses in New York and Philadelphia. It was named after his daughter and drew tenants including coal and railroad executives, becoming a landmark during the 1910s and 1920s. The building survived the demolition of surrounding dwellings during urban renewal and remains a visual landmark in the area. It is significant for its architecture and for what it shows about the wealth and urban living of early twentieth-century Scranton.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Edwin Kaufman","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival with Adamesque details","criteria":[],"status_note":"Today the structure awaits rehabilitation.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.128288-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/84003412.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003412/5d77a38ec0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003412/5d77a38ec0-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Florence_Apts_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:Florence_Apts_Scranton_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998107","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5460550"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lackawanna-county/florence-apartments-84003412/"}