It was an ordinary day. Reading about the Watt & Shand Department Store in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania featuring a Christmas Tree ornament. Some readers remember when Penn Square had more than one Christmas Tree during the holiday season. For years, The Watt & Shand Department Store in Lancaster city was decorated with three-story lighted Christmas trees on its building's exterior. That detail from local Christmases past is honored in LEADS' 2024 Lancaster landmark ornament. The ornaments are $25 each and available to order online at LancasterLeads.org. Shipping is $4.95 for the first ornament and 95 cents for each additional ornament. They are also available to purchase in person from the following Lancaster locations:
Building Character, 342 N. Queen St., rear warehouses.
The Turkey Land at Lancaster Central Market, 23 N. Market St.
LancasterHistory, 230 N President Ave.
Lancaster City Welcome Center, 38 Penn Square.
LEADS, Lancaster's Economic Action for Downtown's Success, is a volunteer organization with the mission of making Lancaster city a more attractive place to visit, shop and live. The group hosts an ornament fundraiser annually, picking a different Lancaster architectural landmark each year to honor. Other sites honored in recent years include James Buchanan's Wheatland, Long's Park Amphitheater, and Franklin & Marshall College's Old Main. This yer's ornament depicts the Watt & Shand building at Christmastime, with the Penn Square Christmas tree displays affixed to the building's facade. Added in the 1970s, the trees survived until 2005, when they were no longer usable. Watt & Shand, a department store, was founded by three Scottish immigrants in 1878. In 1887, work began on its now-iconic building at 25 S. Queen St. The building was designed by celebrated Lancaster architect C. Emlen Urban. The former Watt & Shand building is currently the home of the Lancaster Marriott and Lancaster County Convention Center. The ornaments are from Beacon Design in Lincoln, Rhode Island. It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.
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