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1 HON201- HNR (PHS 201) Elizabethtown History: Campus and Community Quinn Peffer1 Professor Jean-Paul Benowitz 6 May 2020 Zanker- Belle Residence: 264 West Front Street; Marietta, Pennsylvania Abstract: Constructed in 1885 by Fitz Henry Arnold, this Federalist style house, also called “Canal House” by subsequent owners recognizing the historic association with the Pennsylvania Canal. In 1880 Simon Nagle, proprietor of the Nagle House Hotel, next door, sold the hotel and this lot to Fitz Henry Arnold. In 1885 Arnold built this house for John Campbell who purchased the home and the Nagle House Hotel. From the 1890s through the 1920s this was the home of Robert Zanker, Marietta’s clock tender, and owner of a jewelry store, who built the Round Top mansion across the Susquehanna River in York County. Currently this is the home of Dr. Glen Mazis, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Philosophy from Penn State University Harrisburg and President of Marietta Borough Council. Prologue This is one report in a collection of seventeen down the river and the crisscrossing of ferry boats reports about historically significant properties in connecting Lancaster and York Counties. Marietta, Pennsylvania a National Historic District. In 2014, Arcadia Publishing (Charleston, These reports form a collective study entitled, South Carolina) published a book entitled, “Marietta, Pennsylvania’s Historic Homes On Front Elizabethtown College as part of their Campus Street: Transportation, Trade, Triumph, and Tragedy History Series: Images of America, authored by Along The Susquehanna River and the Pennsylvania Jean-Paul Benowitz, who teaches History at Canal.” Elizabethtown College. In 2015, Arcadia Publishing These reports seek to re-create life in asked Jean-Paul to write a history of Elizabethtown Marietta on Front Street along the Pennsylvania Borough, published under the title, Elizabethtown: Canal and the Susquehanna River. The homes, Images of America. In the fall semester of 2016 counting houses, warehouses, taverns, restaurants, Elizabethtown College began offering an Honors hotels, public houses, serving the coal and lumber First Year Seminar, taught by Jean-Paul, called yards and transportation system of the canal and the “Landmarks and Legends: Learning Local History.” river. In the spring semester of 217 Elizabethton College Imagine Front Street in Marietta with teams began offering an Honors research methods course, of mules moving along the tow path guiding canal taught by Jean- Paul called, “Elizabethtown History: boats to the docks. Imagine the log rafts floating Campus and Community.” These courses helped Elizabethtown College secure a Mellon Grant, in 1 Edited by Kyle Cappucci and Eric Schubert as part of The Summer Scholarship, Creative Arts and Research Projects (SCARP) 2021. 2 2018, called “Confronting Challenges with Confidence: Humanities for Our World Today.” Jean-Paul’s courses were supported by this grant as part of the “Development and Delivery of Global and Regional Heritage Studies Courses/Experiences.” The Mellon Grant and these local history courses led to the creation in 2019 of a Certificate in Public Heritage Studies for History majors at Elizabethtown College. These courses are based, in part, on The National Collegiate Honors Council program called Corner of East Market & North New Haven Streets “Partners in the Parks.” This is an outdoor Marietta, Pennsylvania experiential learning program offered through a In the spring semester 2019, the course, collaboration between NCHC and the National Park “Elizabethtown History: Campus and Community,” Service. NCHC also offers programming called involved a partnership with RiverStewards, Inc. The “Place As Text” where students immerse themselves students conducted NHPA Section 106 Reviews of in the local community exploring the culture and historically significant properties in the Marietta geography of the local neighborhood. Students are Historic District(s) and the Chickies Historic challenged to be sensitive and reflect about the District. The students published their findings online human experience in the local built environment. through an ArcGIS map. The students presented In the spring of 2016 the course, their findings at Scholarship and Creative Arts Day “Elizabethtown History: Campus and Community,” (SCAD) at Elizabethtown College on Tuesday 16 involved a partnership with the Lancaster April 2019 and at Marietta Day on Saturday 11 May Preservation Trust and Elizabethtown Borough. 2019 in Marietta. One of the students in the class, Students conducted archival and field research in an Kyle C. Cappucci, expanded the project for a effort to prevent the historically significant Moose Summer Scholarship, Creative Arts, and Research Lodge building in Elizabethtown from being razed. Project (SCARP) in the summer of 2019. Cappucci This successful historic preservation project attracted broadened the Community Based Learning project to the attention of the Architectural Historian for include Marietta Restoration Associates, Inc.; Pennsylvania Department of Transportation RiverStewards, Inc.; Rivertownes PA USA, Inc.; and Engineering District 8. Susquehanna Heritage, Inc. Cappucci expanded the In the spring of 2017 the course, scope of the map beyond historical significance to “Elizabethtown History: Campus and Community,” illustrate the contemporary relevance of Marietta. involved a partnership with PennDOT. Students Cappucci presented his scholarship to the engaged in archival and field research to conduct Marietta Borough Council meeting on Tuesday 9 National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 July 2019 and to the general public at the former First Reviews of local historic properties. Student National Bank on Wednesday 17 July 2019. His research findings were published through the digital presentations entitled: “Putting Historic Marietta on humanities project: ArcGIS story maps. Students’ The Map: This Place Matters!” illustrated how the reports were used by PennDOT, Elizabethtown scholarship by the Honors students at Elizabethtown Borough, and the federal Department of College can bring positive attention to the Marietta Transportation regarding historic preservation Historic District, the Chickies Historic District, and initiatives and public works projects concerning re- the Northwest Lancaster County River Trail. To this building the Market Street Bridge. end, Cappucci suggested the Marietta Restoration Associates, Inc. take the lead in launching a historic preservation awareness campaign created by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, called “This Place Matters!” 3 “This Place Matters!” a national Place Matters, the National Historic Preservation campaign, created by the National Historic Trust, encourages and inspires an ongoing Preservation Trust, encouraging people to dialogue about the importance of place and celebrate places meaningful to them and to their preservation. communities. Since 2015, participants have In the summer of 2021 Kyle Cappucci will shared more than 10,000 photographs of commence work on a Elizabethtown College themselves and their favorite places on social Summer Scholarship, Creative Art and Research media using the hashtag #ThisPlaceMatters. Program Project entitled: “Ecological and In the summer of 2020, Kyle Cappucci Economic Revitalization Through Historic worked, in the remote, on an Elizabethtown Preservation of the Northwest Lancaster County College Summer Scholarship, Creative Art and River Trail in the National Historic District of Research Program Project entitled: “This Place Marietta, Pennsylvania” which will serve as the basis Matters! The National Trust for Historic for his Honors in the Discipline Senior Thesis. Preservation and Economic Revitalization in Cappucci is exploring the relationship between Marietta, Pennsylvania.” Through this SCARP historic preservation and economic development in project Elizabethtown College partnering with Historic Districts. various stakeholders in Marietta, will be This is one report, in a series of seventeen launching a This Place Matters campaign for reports being used to inform the Marietta This Place Marietta. This campaign is not just public Matters campaign. awareness through photography and social Jean-Paul Benowitz media. It is about telling the stories of why these Thursday 25 March 2021 places hold historical significance. Through This Property Details: The estate is located directly between 270 and 258 West Front Street. This house was built in 1885 by Frits Henry Arnold and an addition to the home was built in the late 1800s by Robert Zanker. The total acreage of the land surrounding the estate is ten thousand four hundred fifty-four square feet or 0.24 acres. The land is used for a residential property. The home has one thousand eight hundred fifty-five square feet of living space. The estate is two stories and with that includes one full bathroom, and six different rooms including three bedrooms. The total basement area is 880 square feet. There are three porches. The first is an open slab porch which totals 42 square feet, a raised enclosed porch which totals 120 square feet, and a slab porch with a roof that totals 160 square feet. The home is connected to the public gas, sewage, and water systems and is equipped with electricity.2 Deed Search: Simon Nagle sold a portion of his land, lot 104, to Frits Henry Arnold who built the home3. The home was then transferred from Frits Henry Arnold to Annie Sanders (29 May 1885)4. Upon Annie Sanders’s