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A couple weeks ago, Allison of @lakeerievegan messaged me about having a genuine Colby piano that she needs to rehome. She has traced the serial number and has confirmed that this piano was manufactured in Erie. She is hoping the piano will find a home with someone who appreciates it's local history.

I wrote up a blog post about this, the Messenger/Skinner House, for @preservationerie. Initially this home was going to be on our Endangered Properties list for 2021, but it was demolished before the list was ready for publication. We felt like it couldn't go unrecognized and I was able to uncover some pretty remarkable history of this 1906 home that only ever had 3 owners: Henry and Myrtle Messenger, the Skinner Family, and the Catholic Diocese.

Coming across East 18th, this striking building might catch the corner of your eye up German Street. Palace Hardware was in business in Erie from the 1880s, possibly earlier. Their retail building is also still standing at 911-915 State Street and has been converted to apartments.

For this month's issue of the @eriereader I got to learn more about the history of Erie's first and oldest lighthouse: the Land Lighthouse, how it came to be where it is and why, as well as it's preservation journey. I also got to meet with the current steward of the light, Emily Butler, who is also the new director of the @presqueislelighthouse and will be responsible for helping the Land Lighthouse tell it's story to the public.

If you saw my story today, you'll know we took another Whippy Dip/Cemetery stroll yesterday. This house caught my eye, right behind @whippydipineriepa, as some remuddled, added-onto oldness. Tax records say it was built in 1857, shortly after the cemetery itself was incorporated.

My story in the @eriereader this month is about the re-opening of Erie's Land Lighthouse (the oldest and most often overlooked of our three), some history and a conversation with the new director of the Presque Isle Light Station, Emily Butler, who now calls the Land Lighthouse home.

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