47-65 West Market Street Wilkes-Barre PA United States
Status:
destroyed
Construction Dates
Finished
1922
Destroyed
2006
Floor Count
14
Building Uses
- hotel
Structural Types
- highrise
Heights
Value
Source / Comments
Roof
175 ft
elevatorhouse
Main roof
163 ft
main roof deck
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Description - The tower was added in 1928 by New York architects Warren and Wetmore, designers of Grand Central Station.
- The original Hotel Sterling of 1897 is a flat-roofed Renaissance palazzo style building clad in rough-faced limestone. This was the first Neo-Classical Revival building in Wilkes-Barre, marking the end of Victorian influence.
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