Purchase Price $119,000
28,600 sq. ft.
Contact Marilyn Rajca — ReMax
History and Gallery
In April 1899, Rufus L. McDonald took out a building permit for $8,000.00 to build “Ware Rooms” on Lots 8-11, Block 32 in Patee’s Addition. The substantial brick structure was to house his overall and shirt factory. Eventually, the McDonald factory moved across the street into the former Patee House Hotel and the building at 1122 Penn Street housed the company’s offices and sales rooms. In 1933, the McDonald Manufacturing Company was purchased by Sun Manufacturing Company, the sale included the transfer of both the former factory building (1122 Penn) and the former hotel. In 1935 the Scott Scale Company began operations at 1122 Penn making retail weighing machines and display cases for retail grocers. The Chapman-Meehan Casket Company shared the building with Scott Scale. By the 1960s the building housed the offices and warehouses for Green Hill Supermarkets. By the mid-1970s, the building began to be used to sell antiques; first by Hurd Auction Company and then in the 1980s and 1990s, Penn St. Square Antique Mall operated out of the structure. Following the closure of Penn St. Square, the building has remained vacant.
