Sprenger Brewery

Sprenger Brewery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Excelsior Hall, October 2010
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Location	125-131 E. King St., Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°2′19″N76°18′10″W / 40.03861°N 76.30278°W / 40.03861; -76.30278
Area	0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Built	c. 1857, 1873, c. 1910
Built by	Sprenger, John Abraham
Architectural style	Second Empire
NRHP reference No.	79002257 [1]
Added to NRHP	November 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]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Levengood Associates (n.d.). National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennsylvania SP Sprenger Brewery. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved December 24, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)