Quakertown Pa factory bldg $325k

12,000sf near the tracks, high taxes, public sewer
- bill 5-01-2012 2:00 pm

besides the front door, LOVE LOVE LOVE the front
- Skinny 5-01-2012 2:32 pm [add a comment]


Pretty attractive building indeed. Perfectly safe location. I assume that exterior vestibule was an add on.
- bill 5-01-2012 7:47 pm [add a comment]


  • You assume correctly. Awesome looking building, though.
    - Justin (guest) 5-01-2012 10:45 pm [add a comment] [edit]



In historic district.

The Grauley Cigar Factory, one block east of the rail line, later Allen & Marshall, was adapted for R.M. Taylor Furriers while maintaining its long, 14-bay eave oriented street facade. The length of the building is enhanced with the attached row house on the end dominating the corner of South Hellertown Avenue and New Street. The cigar factories, later clothing manufacturers, such as Reninger's Men's Trousers (1929-1970) at Erie and Belmont (49 Belmont Avenue) show modifications by the end of the 19th century for skylights at the top story incorporated into the roof. Reninger's and the Great Valley Mills (114 Front Street), use the parapet false front to give a rectangular profile to the gable facade. Most factories have a raised first floor approached by frame, stepped porches and windowed basements accessed by storage doors at street level. The large brick factory that replaced the Lester tannery site in 1911 is among the last of the three-story format, built in two sections, the second portion being 18 bays long with colossal scale brick pilasters to reinforce the walls between the evenly fenestrated windows. A transition to one-story factories with a larger ground footprint appeared during the middle decades of the 20th century, Best Made Hosiery on 5th Street, factories along Hellertown Avenue and on side alleys off Tohickon Avenue. Most are still brick, some with decorative front facades, however the smaller operations, such as ca.1926 Lewis Brothers contracting and millwork, are frame and traditional in design with gable roofs and standard sash windows and cross-buck garage doors. A number of the industrial buildings within the Quakertown Historic District still function in manufacturing, and, even if currently dormant, retain much of their functional integrity.

- bill 5-03-2012 3:03 am [add a comment]


I am on enough opiates to be in for 20%!!
- Skinny 5-03-2012 3:26 am [add a comment]


Ok we need four more to form an llc. image note the covered landing, later enclosed is visible on the left.
- bill 5-04-2012 9:41 pm [add a comment]


im in for 20% of the opiates.
- dave 5-04-2012 11:19 pm [add a comment]


Originally listed in 2010 at $600k per zillow.
- bill 5-08-2012 2:06 pm [add a comment]


Reduced to $275K
- bill 9-03-2012 2:30 pm [add a comment]


lets offer 200K
- Skinny 9-04-2012 3:01 am [add a comment]


Soon. If it's still on the market. Or the one in Allentown for $100k.
- bill 9-18-2012 2:50 pm [add a comment]





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