{"nrhp_refnum":"84003487","name":"Pardee, Israel Platt, Mansion","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"235 N. Laurel St. and 28 Aspen St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hazleton","county":"Luzerne County","state":"PA","lat":40.96008007000006,"lon":-75.97249244599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-01-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Queen Anne style clapboard Victorian mansion with a carriage house on a corner lot in the older section of Hazelton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the area formerly known as Pardee Square. It was built in 1893 for Israel Platt Pardee.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the mansion is a fine, intact example of the Queen Anne style, designed by pattern-book architect George W. Barber. It is tied to the Pardee family, whose founder Ario Pardee founded Hazelton and its coal firm, and to Israel P. Pardee's philanthropy toward Lafayette College and his local banking role. It is described as the only remaining Pardee family mansion in Hazelton.","narrative":"Built in 1893 on a corner lot in Hazelton, the Israel Platt Pardee Mansion is a 19-room Queen Anne clapboard Victorian designed by the pattern-book architect George W. Barber. Its features include a wrap-around porch, a corner turret, fish scale siding on the upper walls, a red cedar shingle roof, and an oak-floored interior with carved fireplaces, built-in oak bookcases, and stained glass windows. A separate carriage house originally housed a caretaker. Pardee was the son of Ario Pardee, who founded Hazelton and its coal firm, and he returned to the city in 1893 after working as a mining engineer and ironworks superintendent in New Jersey. He was a generous benefactor of Lafayette College, served as its president from 1914 to 1925, and led the Hazelton National Bank. The house is valued as an intact example of its style and as the last Pardee family mansion remaining in the city.","period_of_significance":"1893","architect_builder":"George W. Barber (architect)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.126633-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/84003487.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003487/e33b4c650c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003487/e33b4c650c-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pardee_Hazelton_LuzCo_PA_1.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:Pardee_Hazelton_LuzCo_PA_1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995857","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Platt_Pardee_Mansion","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15228891"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/luzerne-county/pardee-israel-platt-mansion-84003487/"}