Sprenger Brewery

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Sprenger Brewery
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Excelsior Hall, October 2010
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Location125-131 E. King St., Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°2′19″N76°18′10″W / 40.03861°N 76.30278°W / 40.03861; -76.30278
Area0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Builtc. 1857, 1873, c. 1910
Built bySprenger, John Abraham
Architectural styleSecond Empire
NRHP reference No. 79002257 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 27, 1979

The Sprenger Brewery, also known as the Excelsior Brewery Complex, is an historic, American brewery complex that is located in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1]

History and architectural features

This complex consists of five buildings and an open area. The Excelsior Hall was built in 1873, and is a four-story building that measures thirty-three feet by 105 feet. It features a Victorian storefront that once housed the brewery saloon and a restored heavy, sculptural mansard roof in the Second Empire style. The remaining buildings are a two-story building with stone basement vaults built circa 1857, a forty-nine-foot by sixty-nine-foot infill building that was built circa 1910; a Victorian warehouse that measures forty-four feet, six inches by eight-eight feet, six inches, and a two-story, brick stable. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2012-02-25.Note: This includes Levengood Associates (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Sprenger Brewery" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-02-25.