Ephrata Commercial Historic District

Ephrata Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 36 contributing buildings in the central business district of Ephrata.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Mentzer Building and Ephrata Cloister.

Mentzer Building

Building

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Mentzer Building is a historic commercial building located at Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1889, and is a three-story, brick building in the Queen Anne style.

Ephrata Cloister

Museum

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The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community, established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Ephrata High School

School

Ephrata High School is a sub-urban/urban, public secondary school in the Ephrata Area School District located in Ephrata in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ephrata and Akron.

Ephrata

Town

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Ephrata is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located 42 miles east of Harrisburg and about 60 miles west-northwest of Philadelphia and is named after Ephrath, the former name for current-day Bethlehem.

Akron

Village

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Akron is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 4,169. Akron is situated 2 miles southwest of Ephrata Commercial Historic District.