Posted May 21, 2018, 2:31 PM
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This is pretty cool
Lawrence Park receives historic designation
http://www.goerie.com/news/20180521/...ic-designation
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A section of the township, originally developed to house GE employees in the early 1900s, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The Lawrence Park Historical Society hired a consultant to help them make the case that the town was built by General Electric as an "industrial village."
The town built for GE has been included in the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places. The National Register is the official list of the nation’s historic places worthy of preservation, according to the National Park Service.
The nation’s first recognized city planner, Philadelphia native John Nolen, helped design the Lawrence Park development to provide nice neighborhoods for General Electric Co. employees in 1911 after construction of the GE plant began just east of Erie in 1910. In 1917, Nolen added Lawrence Park’s signature row houses to his plans to accommodate growing numbers of wartime employees.
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