Asa Packer Mansion
The Asa Packer Mansion is a historic house museum on Packer Road in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, United States. Completed in 1861, it was the home of Asa Packer, a coal and railroad magnate, philanthropist, and founder of Lehigh University.Photo: Chris18240, Public domain.
- Type: Museum
- Description: historic house museum in Pennsylvania
- Also known as: “Asa Packer Mansion Museum”
- Address: Jim Thorpe, PA 18229
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Harry Packer Mansion and Bear Mountain.
Harry Packer Mansion
Guest house
Photo: KForce, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Harry Packer Mansion, is a historic home which is located in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located in the Old Mauch Chunk Historic District, this residence was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1974.
Bear Mountain
Peak
Bear Mountain, in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania several miles above the Lehigh Gap, is a steep-sided east bank ridgeline running about 9.96 miles between the hairpin turn in the Lehigh the Lenape Amerindian people visualized as a bear's snout, along many water gap gorges, to the steep face dropping down to the Penn Forest Reservoir. Bear Mountain is situated 2 miles east of Asa Packer Mansion.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jim Thorpe and Packerton.
Jim Thorpe
Jim Thorpe is a borough in the Coal Region, near Lehighton, Allentown and the Lehigh Valley, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Packerton
Hamlet
Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
Packerton is a village located in Mahoning Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River and U.S. Route 209 between Jim Thorpe and Lehighton. It uses the Lehighton ZIP code of 18235.
Lehighton
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lehighton is a borough in the Coal Region, near Jim Thorpe, Allentown and the Lehigh Valley, in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States of America.
Asa Packer Mansion
- Categories: historic house museum, organization, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Borough of Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.86454° or 40° 51′ 52″ northLongitude
-75.73837° or 75° 44′ 18″ westOpen location code
87G6V776+RMOpenStreetMap ID
way 281354924OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q4803148
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In Other Languages
“Asa Packer Mansion” goes by many names.
- French: “Asa Packer Mansion”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Carbon County Courthouse and Carbon County Commissioners.
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