{"nrhp_refnum":"84003416","name":"Grand Army of the Republic Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"303 Linden St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Scranton","county":"Lackawanna County","state":"PA","lat":41.410859377000065,"lon":-75.66486749299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-05-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story and three-story corner commercial building with a full basement at the corner of Linden Street and Penn Avenue in the Downtown Scranton area, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1886.","why_significant":"The nomination describes it as one of the finest representations of Victorian Romanesque architecture in northeastern Pennsylvania, with highly ornate carved brick and molding. It is credited with anchoring a block of nineteenth-century buildings and is linked to the Grand Army of the Republic, whose local post occupied it for many years and used it as a center of political and social life. It also holds a Civil War museum collection.","narrative":"Built in 1886 by Victor Koch on a corner lot in downtown Scranton, this brick building combines two sections of three and four stories above a full basement. Its Victorian Romanesque facade is noted for carved brick work, cast stone window frames, semicircular arched windows with stained glass, a carved brick cornice, and a round corner turret with a cupola that rises about 90 feet. The building first held the Windsor Hotel and Saloon on its lower floors and a Masonic hall on the top floor. After 1901 it was bought by the Edward Griffin Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Civil War veterans group. At its peak the post had more than 600 members, many of them prominent in Scranton business and politics, and the hall became a center for political and social gatherings. The building is also significant for its architectural design, which is attributed to the architect John Duckworth, who practiced in Scranton from 1884. The building remains a visual landmark in the district.","period_of_significance":"1886-1912","architect_builder":"Victor Koch (builder); John Duckworth (architect, attributed)","architectural_style":"Victorian Romanesque","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still houses the Civil War museum and library collection of the local GAR post.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:34.185011-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/84003416.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003416/be22bb1c17-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003416/be22bb1c17-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Army_of_the_Republic_Building_Scranton_PA_Nov_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Army_of_the_Republic_Building_Scranton_PA_Nov_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998101","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Army_of_the_Republic_Building_(Scranton,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5594247"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lackawanna-county/grand-army-of-the-republic-building-84003416/"}