123 South Duke Street Lancaster, PA
Historic townhouses in Old Town Lancaster. This neighborhood is an award-winning preservation project. Several blocks of dilapidated buildings were saved from the wrecking ball for this urban revitalization in the 1970s and 80s.
Initial investors were architect John de Vitry, brothers Calvin and Dale High of High Realty, interior designer Thomas DePaul, contractor Phares Martin, and real-estate investor Sidney Kevich of San Francisco. Derck and Edson landscape architecture firm prepared the site plan.
The project received much national acclaim. The National Institute of Architects proclaimed in their December 1978 journal that by rescuing the houses from the wrecking ball Old Town "saved a portion of the city's history and sparked a recycling trend in Lancaster, PA, that makes the city proud."