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Florence Apartments

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Area
  
0.6 acres (0.24 ha)

Architect
  
Kaufman, Edwin

NRHP Reference #
  
84003412

Built
  
1908

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival

Florence Apartments

Location
  
643 Adams Ave., Scranton, Pennsylvania

Florence Apartments is a historic apartment building located at Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1908, and is a six-story, "U"-shaped building with Colonial Revival style design details. It has a steel and concrete structure with exterior limestone on the first and second stories and brick above. The front facade features two three-story rectangular bays clad in pressed metal and the main entrance is surrounded by two Tuscan order columns supporting an entabulature inscribed with the name "Florence." It was the first multi-story apartment building in Scranton.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

References

Florence Apartments Wikipedia