Tag: Lowrie Street

  • Old Stable on Troy Hill

    Old stable on Troy Hill

    Every city used to be full of stables because every city used to be full of horses. Garages have replaced stables, and most of the old stables have vanished. Here is a rare survivor. It was in the beer business for at least a century, but that it was a stable before that is fairly obvious. The grinning horse tells the story. Even then it may have been a stable for a brewery; the earliest owner old Pa Pitt has been able to trace was J. P. Ober, the Ober of Eberhardt & Ober, whose brewery at the base of this same hill is now the Penn Brewery.

    Horse ornament
    Horse ornament
    Entrance with horse’s head
    Entrance
    1512 Lowrie Street
    Sony Alpha 3000; Kodak EasyShare Max Z990.

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