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Chamberlin Iron Front Building is a historic commercial building located at Lewisburg,
Union County, Pennsylvania Union County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,681. Its county seat is Lewisburg. The county was created on March 22, 1813, from part of Northumberland County. Its name is an allusio ...
. It was built in 1868, and is a three-story, brick building with a two-story rear addition in the
Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...
style. It measures 56 feet wide and 160 feet deep. The main section has a flat roof and the addition a gable roof. It features a
cast-iron Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content more than 2%. Its usefulness derives from its relatively low melting temperature. The alloy constituents affect its color when fractured: white cast iron has carbide impuriti ...
front manufactured in
Danville, Pennsylvania Danville is a borough in and the county seat of Montour County, Pennsylvania, United States, along the North Branch of the Susquehanna River. The population was 4,221 at the census. Danville is part of the Bloomsburg-Berwick micropolitan area. ...
. Over the years the building has housed a general store, shoe store, feed store, and post office, as well as fraternal organizations on the upper floors. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 1979. It is located in the Lewisburg Historic District.


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{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Cast-iron architecture in the United States Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Commercial buildings completed in 1868 Buildings and structures in Union County, Pennsylvania Historic district contributing properties in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Union County, Pennsylvania