245 West Chestnut Street Lancaster, PA
This was the home of Lancaster’s famed clockmaker, Martin Shreiner, Sr. in the mid 1800s. He was one of the region’s premier makers of tall-case clocks / grandfather clocks.
In 2019 a tall-case musical clock by Martin Shreiner sold at auction for $204,000, a record for a Shreiner clock. This was one of the highest prices ever paid for a Lancaster clock. It was made ca. 1820 and descended in the Shreiner family. After the auction the clock returned to Lancaster County to a local family.
In 1836 this clockmaker established the Shreiner-Concord Cemetery across the street from this house. The cemetery is best known as the burial place of U. S. Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, who was one of the most powerful congressmen during the Civil-War era. Thaddeus Stevens was passionately anti-slavery and is considered a father of U. S. public education.
The house was built ca. 1840 to 1860. It has pedimented dormers and wood lintels with roundels. The inset front porch probably dates to ca. 1925.