Tunkhannock Historic District

Tunkhannock is a densely built borough and county seat on the north bank of the North Branch Susquehanna River, with most buildings dating from the mid- and late nineteenth century. Its commercial core along Tioga Street holds two- and three-story brick blocks with street-level shops and upper-floor offices, many with round-arched windows and corbelled cornices. The Prince Hotel, erected in 1844, has a simplified Greek Revival front with a centrally placed loggia. The Wyoming County Courthouse, first built in 1843 as a two-story brick building, was redesigned in 1870 by D.R. Nott as a three-story Italianate building with a clock tower. The district grew from river trade in lumber and later anthracite coal, and it served as the county's transshipment point, business center and seat of government. Fires in 1850 and 1870 led to the rebuilding of many blocks in brick.