ALLEGHENY PORTAGE RAILROAD Lemon House and Coal Mine Historic Structures Report (Part I—Historical Data)

Cover

Foreword

Introduction

The Lemon Family

Samuel Lemon -- Inn Keeper

Samuel Lemon -- Mine Operator

Samuel Lemon -- Railroad Contractor

Decline of the Old Portage Railroad

Structural History: Summary and Assessment

Lemon House
Barn
Engine House
Lemon Coal Mine
Stone Quarry
Government Shops
Miscellaneous Buildings
Water Pipeline

Conclusion

Notes

Illustrations

Illustration No. 1: Lemon House, north side, fronting on the Portage Railway. Originally the front entrance.

Illustration No. 2: Lemon House, south side, fronting on the present route 22. Originally the rear entrance.

Illustration No. 3: Map locating the Lemon House in respect to the trace of the Portage Railroad and modern route 22.

Illustration No. 4: Engine House, head of Plane No. 6. Notice the Lemon House, left center. Photograph taken about 1845 but original source unknown. Copy print in the files of the Historic Site.

Illustration No. 5: Engine House, head of Plane No. 6. Lemon House, left center. Original source, Storm painting, c. 1895.

Illustration No. 6: Map of the vicinity of the Lemon House, 1967.

Illustration No. 7: Head of Plane No. 6 looking east. Engine House, center; Lemon House, right foreground; unidentified structure, right center; log cabin, left center. Source of original painting unknown; artist unknown.

Illustration No. 8: Lemon Rouse, north side and original front entrance, c. 1936. Source, Stotz, The Architectural Heritage of Early Western Pennsylvania, p. 183.

Illustration No. 9: Front entrance, north side of Lemon House, c. 1936. Source, Stotz, p. 150.

Illustration No. 10: Lemon House, south side, c. 1936. Source unknown.