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Dr. Innes House (20 North 3rd Street, now Quadrant Book Mart & Coffee House).

3-1/2-story brickface building with three tall chimneys, built in a “Gothic/Jacobian” style. Garden at rear was at one time an indoor conservatory in the mansion.

The property is part of original town Lot No. 141, as surveyed by William Parsons when Easton was established in 1752. That Lot was formally obtained from the Penn Family by John Rees (also spelled Reese) in a patent dated in April of 1776; in the underlying survey, Rees agreed to build a “stone dwelling house” on the property. John Rees also informally occupied the adjacent Lot No.142, finally purchasing formal title to it in 1789. Rees had also formally purchased the following Lot No.143 from its owners in 1775, and sold it to his son Jacob in 1805.

John Rees was a “Taylor” by trade. After his death, his remaining real estate (i.e. Lot Nos.141 and 142) was broken up (“partitioned”) by Orphan’s Court, to be split up among his three children. Part No.1, at the corner with the alley that later became Church Street, had 33 feet and three inches of frontage on Pomfret (now called North 3rd) Street, but appears to have been unimproved by any buildings. To support its valuation at £400, the “partition” included a right to “make use of the southern wall of the house erected on the adjacent “Part No.2”, which would help the new owner build their own house. At Orphan’s Court proceedings on 25 April 1807, Rees’s daughter Christina (married to John Carey the Elder) accepted “Part No.1” for a portion of her inheritance. Although changes have been made at the rear of the property, it still has essentially the same frontage on North 3rd Street today.

John Carey was a carpenter, as was his son John Carey the Younger (whose wife was also named Christina!). In 1808, father and son entered into an agreement under which John Carey the Elder would sell this land to his son, for £400 paid in installments, provided John Carey the Younger agreed to build “in a good workmanlike manner a two Storey frame house twenty two by twenty eight feet” by the summer, on the “lower corner of the Lot” fronting on the alley (presumably what became Bank Street in the rear of the property), for occupation by the father and his wife during their lifetimes. Otherwise, the son was allowed “immediate possession” of the “Front half of said Lot”. In 1812, a deed confirmed that the money had been paid the other agreement commitments had been kept. Accordingly, title was transferred to John Carey the Younger. This deed continued to recite the right to “adjoin and make use of” Jacob Reese’s “Southern Wall”.

John Carey the Younger kept the property until 1833. At that time, he sold the front part of the Lot, 120’ deep, to Abraham Beidelman for $1,500. The deed recited that the property had a “Frame Shop” on it, but did not recite the presence of any house, suggesting that Carey had used it to carry on his carpentry trade. By this time, however, Carey had retired (he was listed in the deed as an “Esquire”). Abraham Beidelman had already owned the adjacent northern part of Lot No. 141, including the “Southern Wall” that the deed language (duly carried over from prior deeds) allowed him to “adjoin and make use of”.

Beidelman may be the same “Abraham Beidleman” who, as one of the six sons of Elias Beidleman, inherited jointly over 153 acres of property in Lower Saucon Township from their father. A 4-acre “Meadow” had been sold out of this property, which Abraham paid £36 to have returned in 1783. He may also have been the “Abraham Bidleman” who, along with the other men in his company, had received a $6 advance on his enlistment pay as a private during the War of 1812. In 1823, “Farmer” Abraham “Bidleman” paid $8,893.80 to purchase two properties in Williams Township, one containing over 157 acres, and a smaller one containing more than 27 acres. In his later deeds, Abraham “Bidleman” listed his occupation as a “Gentleman” or “Esquire”.

Beidelman retained this Easton property until his death on 21 February 1843. In 1847, his heirs and their legal representatives sold the property to Charles Innes, “Doctor of Medicine” – still reciting the right to use the “Southern Wall of the Stone Messuage erected on the said Abraham Beidelman’s Lot.” The sale price was $4,350.

A modern newspaper article states that Dr. Charles Innes, “during that year [when he purchased the house,] had the present building erected”, but gives no source for the statement. The newspaper might have been looking at the architectural style, because in fact a “Gothic Revival” style did “spread across America in the 1840’s and 1850’s”. However, the actual features of the house, which include “a polychromatic exterior finish” (that is, a contrast of building materials colors between the stone corners and the brick walls), as well as the apparent flat roof (instead of a gabled one more usual in early Gothic buildings), suggests that the visible architectural style more nearly reflects the later “Victorian Gothic” of the 1860-90 period, as remodeled from an earlier, simpler style of building. That same flat roof, as well as the recessed front entry, and very simple entablatures retained above the windows, may indicate that the earlier house style was in fact “Greek Revival”, typical of an earlier period. Moreover, a comparison of Beidelman’s purchase and sale prices provides circumstantial evidence that in fact he, and not Innes, built the house. The sale price that Innes paid the Beidelman estate was almost three times what Beidelman had paid to purchase the property just 14 years before, suggesting some considerable construction by Beidelman. Moreover, a comparison with other property prices in the area suggest that Innes bought a considerable house, rather than building it himself. In 1846 (just one year earlier), Dr. Charles Innes himself bought a comparably-sized piece of property farther up the other (East) side of North 3rd Street – and paid only $350 for it (compared with the $4,350 he paid for what became 20 North 3rd Street).

At all events, Dr. Charles Innes took up residence in his property at least by 1852. He was again listed there in 1855, when the assigned address was 8 North Third Street. With the 1874 inauguration of the modern street numbering scheme, his house was reassigned the modern address of 20 North 3rd Street.

Dr. Charles Innes (1802-1880) was a son of early Easton settler Robert Innes, a merchant whose house had been located at the NW corner of Centre Square and Northampton Street. He served on the School Board committee that planned the organization of Easton’s McCartney High School in the 1850s. He retired from medical practice “shortly after the Civil War” for health reasons, and died in 1880. He was survived by his widow (Matilda “Tilda” Mixsell Innes) and son (Edward), who lived in the house into the early 1880s.

In 1883, Edward Innes sold the house for $12,000 to his uncle, Easton lawyer Matthew Hale Jones [the second], whose illustrious father (the first Mathew Hale Jones) had lived across the street in the mansion at the NE corner of North 3rd Street and Centre Square that later became the basis for the Hotel Huntington.

· There were ultimately four successive “Matthew Hale Jones” in Easton. The second one – who features in this building’s history – is often confusingly referred to as Matthew Hale Jones Sr. He had studied law in his father’s office, until opening his own law practice with partner Floyd B. McAlee in 1896.

In fact, the first Matthew Hale Jones had died just a few months before the purchase, leaving the Jones Family house to his three children, two sons (Robert I. Jones and a second Matthew Hale Jones) and a daughter (Elizabeth, wife of lawyer William S. Kirkpatrick). His son Robert I. Jones continued in residence in the family homestead, while his namesake Matthew Hale Jones [the second] moved across the street to take up residence in the Dr. Innes House. However, after four years (in 1887), Matthew Hale Jones Jr. sold Dr. Innes’s former house for $18,000 to his sister, Elizabeth, wife of William Sebring Kirkpatrick, and apparently moved his residence back into the family homestead at the corner with Centre Square. The Kirkpatricks took up residence in the Dr. Innes House by 1887. William Kirkpatrick (1844-1932) was a successful lawyer with, in addition, a long history of government positions. At various times he served as the President Judge of the Pennsylvania Third Judicial District Court, the Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1887), and a U.S. Congressman (1896). Note that his term as Attorney General in 1887 roughly coincided with his move to the more centrally-located Dr. Innes House.

The large increase in sale price after only four years reckoned between lawyers Jones and Kirkpatrick – with due allowance for the fact that it was a “family deal” and not really a market transaction – nevertheless suggests that a significant improvement was made to the property by Jones before it was transferred to his daughter. As discussed above, the 1880s is consistent with the time period when the “Victorian Gothic Revival” architectural styles were in vogue, suggesting that the current façade of the house may date from this period. Judge Kirkpatrick’s taste in similar late Victorian revival façades is corroborated by the “two handsome houses” he owned in 1885 done up in Tudor Revival style at 120-22 North 3rd Street, one of them “occupied by . . . Mrs. Kirkpatrick” at that time.

Judge Kirkpatrick continued to live at 20 North 3rd Street after 1900, but moved out to by 1910. In that year, the resident was cement mills clerk Francis G. McKelvey. In 1920, residential space was occupied by banker Mark Swartz, while in 1926, real estate company H.T. Updegrove, Inc. was located in the building. A florist business (Kleinhan’s Florist) operated out of the building by 1928. The florist’s clerk, John Limeberry, believed that he had been promised a proprietary interest in the Kleinhan shop in exchange for low wages, but was never actually made a proprietor. Kleinhans Flower Shop, as well as other businesses and apartments, occupied the building in 1930.Residential space was occupied in 1930 by silk mill thrower Margaret V. Hillliard, but by the late 1930s flower shop owner Arthur Kleinhaus and his wife also lived there in one of the apartments.

After Judge Kirkpatrick’s death in 1932, his sons (William and Donald) acquired ownership. They continued to rent out space in the building to various tenants, including (among others) Kleinhans Florist (into the 1950s) and later Ken’s Delicatessen. In 1967, they also began renting space in the building to Harold Kares, a podiatrist. In 1971, Harold Kares purchased the building, bringing to an end 124 years of ownership by the Innes/Jones/Kirkpatrick Family. The house came to be known for him as the “Kares Building” in the 1970s. By then, however, the building had fallen into disrepair. In 1976, the Easton Redevelopment Authority (“ERA”) took over the building by eminent domain, leaving the building vacant.

· Dr. Kares then purchased the Charles Coburn Homestead (42 North Third Street) from the Easton Parking and Realty Corp., and moved his business and residence there.

As part of “Urban Renewal”, ERA planned to widen Church Street from Fourth to Third Streets into a thoroughfare, to allow customer access and parking, and truck access and loading in the rear of Northampton Street stores such as the former Bush & Bull Department Store building (occupied by a large Woolworth’s store at that time). The project design required removing the “Kares Building” at Third Street, as well as the “Cinruss and Patio Buildings” on North Fourth Street. This plan engendered a multi-year political controversy in Easton, which raged between pro-development and pro-preservation forces. Meanwhile, Woolworth’s itself closed in 1978, leaving that large building vacant, and the owners lobbied heavily to have Church Street widened throughout the block, to encourage a new retail use of the space.

In 1979, a proposal was made to resolve the dispute by demolishing the Fourth Street buildings and widening Church Street half-way, but retaining the “Kares Building” on North 3rd Street (and extending its property through the rear part of the lots all the way back to 4th Street). The “Kares Building” property was to be sold to bookseller Richard Epstein for renovation. In the meantime, the Northampton County Industrial Redevelopment Authority took over formal ownership of the redesigned property, which now stretched all the way back to 4th Street, alongside a widened Church Street. Epstein transferred his Quadrant Book Mart from West Easton, and opened it instead on North 3rd Street, beginning in 1979.

· The name “Quadrant” came from the mechanism on a cable car that grabs the cable, which he thought was appropriate to Centre Square because of the cable car routes that had once converged there, especially the celebrated one up the hill to Lafayette College.

A deed finalizing the sale to Epstein was finally completed in 1999.

In 2003, Epstein sold the property to Joanne (“Jo”) Moranville and Andris (“Andy”) Danielsons. They have continued to operate the bookstore, art gallery and restaurant as a meeting place for some members of the Easton political and arts communities. Jo Moranville also has participated personally in Easton civic projects, such as organizing a neighborhood block watch and Easton’s traditional garlic festival. Meanwhile, Andy Danielsons works with the books, and at times has provided celebrated chili such as his particularly spicy variety known as “Death in a Jar”.

� City of Easton, Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form, Attachment: Building Description Survey Area 1 Zone D (City Council Resolution approved 12 May 1982).

An artistic rendition of the entryway is the subject of Timothy George Hare, Easton Inkscapes No.42 (Easton: Inkwell Publications 1989).

� Compare A.D. Chidsey, Jr., The Penn Patents in the Forks of the Delaware Plan of Easton, Map 2 (Vol. II of Publications of the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society 1937) with Northampton County Tax Records map, www.ncpub.org.

� Patent, Penn Family to John Reese, Patent Book AA9 234 (17 Apr. 1776), indexed online at www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17PatentIndexes/A-AAPatentIndex267.pdf; see Northampton County Warrant No. R97 issued to John Reese, Patent Book AA9 234 (16 Apr. 1776, returned 17 Apr. 1776), indexed online for Northampton County Warrants p.146, Warrant No.97, at www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-88WarrantRegisters/NorthamptonPages/Northampton146.pdf. This patent was uncovered by John L. Holdos in 2010.

� Survey Book C176 86 (11 Apr. 1776, returned 17 Apr. 1776 by Lewis Gordon).

� Charles de Krafft, Map of Easton Original Town Lots (from the collection of Luigi “Lou” Ferone (“Mr. Easton”) auctioned 27 Feb. 2010, said to have been used by the Penn clerks for notations to keep track of the town lots c.1779-1801)(Lot No.142).

� See Deed, John Penn the Younger and John Penn the Elder to John Rees, A3 416 (20 Nov. 1789); see www.WalkingEaston.com entry for the Davis Duplex at 26-28 North 3rd Street.

� Deed, John (Mary) Wagle, et al., to John Rees, B1 251 (9 Jan. 1765)(Lot No.143).

� Deed, John Rees to Jacob Rees, A3 418 (24 Oct. 1805); see also Deed, Mary Reese (Executrix of Will of Jacob Reese) and Charles Reese (Trustee) to Samuel Drake, G11 133 (25 Mar. 1867)(regarding stone house on Lot No.143, now listed in part as 32 North Third Street, recitals include lengthy account of court proceedings to clear title and search for a missing heir of the Reese estate); see separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for Hohl House at 32 North Third Street.

� E.g., Estate of John Rees, 8 Orphan’s Court Record 58 (25 Apr. 1807).

� Estate of John Rees, 8 Orphan’s Court Record 58 (16 Feb. 1807); accord, Deed, John (Christina) Carey the Elder to John Carey the Younger, F5 468 (6 Nov. 1812). Part No.2, with the stone house on it, was evaluated at £850. Part Nos.1 and 3, on either side, were valued at only £400 and £350, respectively – presumably the larger valuation of Part No.1 in part supported by the right to build off of Part No.2’s southern wall.

� Northampton County Tax Records map, www.ncpub.org (20 North 3rd Street has a frontage of 33.26’).

� Compare Deed, John (Christina) Carey the Elder to John Carey the Younger, F5 468 (6 Nov. 1812)(carpenters) with Deed, John (Christina) Carey the Younger to Abraham Beidelman, H5 157 (14 Jan. 1833).

� Agreement, John Carey the Elder and John Carey the Younger, C3 392 (9 Jan. 1808).

� Deed, John (Christina) Carey the Elder to John Carey the Younger, F5 468 (6 Nov. 1812)

� Deed, John (Christina) Carey the Younger to Abraham Beidelman, H5 157 (14 Jan. 1833).

� Deed, Moses (Mary) Davis to Abraham (Margaret) Beidleman (joint life estate) and Heirs, G5 393 (30 Mar. 1831)(regarding the property that became 22-24 North 3rd Street); see www.WalkingEaston.com entry for Hulick Mansion at 22-24 North 3rd Street.

� Deed, Conrad Shimmel to Abraham Beidelman, G2 163 (25 Sept. 1783).

� See Muster Rolls of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the War of 1812-14, with pay rolls, etc. at 211 (Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Company, State Printer,1907), available online at http://www.archive.org/stream/musterrollsofpen02harr/musterrollsofpen02harr_djvu.txt (Pennsylvania Militia Company in Captain Bargstresser’s Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, pay received 18 November 1814).

� Deed, Abraham (Gertrude) Swartz to Abraham Bidleman, H4 27 (31 May 1823).

� Deed, John (Christina) Carey the Younger to Abraham Beidelman, H5 157 (14 Jan. 1833).

� Deed, Moses (Mary) Davis to Abraham (Margaret) Beidleman (joint life estate) and Heirs, G5 393 (30 Mar. 1831).

� See Deed, William (Margaret) Stewart, et al. (heirs and estate of Margaret Beidelman) to Derrick Hulick, D11 158 (24 Nov. 1865)(recital, deed conveys the property that became the Hulick Mansion at 22 North 3rd Street).

� Deed, William (Margaret) Stewart, et al., to Charles Innes, G7 363 (1 Apr. 1847)(sale by heirs and administrator of Abraham Beidelman).

�William Weiss & James Wright, “Karas Building Is A Family History”, Easton Express, Monday, 31 Dec. 1979, p.11, col.1 (story text shows that headline “Karas Building” should read “Kares Building”); see Interview with Jo Moranville, co-owner (stated the date as 1848).

See also City of Easton, Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form, Attachment: Building Description Survey Area 1 Zone D (City Council Resolution approved 12 May 1982)(built c.1850); Madeleine Mathias, “Bookstore Founder Turning to New Page”, The Morning Call, 11 July 1994, p. B-1(constructed between 1840 and 1870); Northampton County tax records, www.ncpub.org. (built in 1860); William Peterson, Eagle Scout Project: Historic Guide of Easton Site #50 (2006), available through Easton website, www.easton-pa.com (via “History” link).

� Nancy J. Sanquist (Project Director, Office of Preservation, Easton City Hall), Easton Architectural and Historical Survey Manual unnumbered p.15 (August 1978).

� Beidelman paid $1,500, and received $4,350 from Innes, or a price appreciation of 290%. See deeds cited above.

� Compare Deed, Joseph (Catharine) Horn to Charles Innes, D7 566 (13 Apr. 1846)(sale price $350 for property measuring 30’ on the East side of Pomfret Street X 115’ deep) with Deed, William (Margaret) Stewart, et al., to Charles Innes, G7 363 (1 Apr. 1847)(sale price $4,350 for property measuring 33’ 3 on the West side of Pomfret Street X 120’ deep).

� See Article, “Interesting Reminiscence, North Third Street a Third of a Century Ago”, Easton Daily Free Press, Thursday, 20 Aug. 1885, p.3 (Dr. Charles Innes residence in 1852).

� See C[harles] Kitchen, A General Directory of the Borough of Easton PA (Cole & Eichman’s Office, 1855); Talbot’s Lehigh Valley Gazetteer and Business Directory 1864-65 19 (Press of Wynkoop & Hallenbeck 1864)(alphabetical listing); Jeremiah H. Lant, The Northampton County Directory for 1873 84 (1873)(alphabetical listing). See generally D.G. Beers, Atlas of Northampton County Pennsylvania, Plan of Easton (A. Pomeroy & Co. 1874)(Dr. Innes).

� Article, “The New Numbers”, Easton Daily Free Press, Monday, 24 Nov. 1873, p.3; see Webb Bros. & Co., Webb’s Easton and Phillipsburg Directory 1875-6 68 (M.J. Riegel 1875)(Charles Innes, house at 20 North 3rd Street).

� William Weiss & James Wright, “Karas Building Is A Family History”, Easton Express, Monday, 31 Dec. 1979, p.11, col.1.

� See Deed, Charles Innes, Surviving Executor of the Will of Robert Innes, to Matthew Hale Jones, E7 474 (4 Dec. 1846)(and recitals, regarding the sale of the Centre Square property); see William Weiss & James Wright, “Karas Building Is A Family History”, Easton Express, Monday, 31 Dec. 1979, p.11, col.1; www.WalkingEaston.com entry for 301 Northampton Street (corner property).

� Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 3 (Hillburn & West 1879); see and compare Article, “Easton Public School System Acclaimed for Accomplishments”, Easton Express, Saturday, 12 June 1937, Jubilee Section B p.9 with William W. Cottingham (Easton Borough Superintendent), Northampton County (Report) (10 Oct. 1857), in Pennsylvania Common Schools, Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools of Pennsylvania for the Year Ending June 2, 1857 County Reports at 214 (Harrisburg: A. Boyd Hamilton, State Printer 1858).

� Weiss & Wright, “Karas Building Is A Family History”, supra; Obiturary paragraph for Dr. Charles Innes, Easton Daily Argus, Friday, 26 March 1880, p.1, col.1; see also D.G. Beers, Atlas of Northampton County Pennsylvania, Plan of Easton (A. Pomeroy & Co. 1874)(Dr. Innes); Talbot’s Lehigh Valley Gazetteer and Business Directory 1864-65 (Press of Wynkoop & Hallenbeck 1864)(alphabetical listing for Chas. Innes, physician at 8 N. Third St.).

� 1880 Census, Series T9, Roll 1161, p.403 (Tilda Innes, aged 75, and son Edward, a “Retired Bookkeeper” aged 51); J.H. Lant & Son, Easton [Etc.] Directory 1881-2 (1881)(alphabetical listing); George W. West, West’s Guide to Easton [Etc.] 64 (West & Everett, Job Printers 1883)(“Edward Innes, gentleman”).

Edward acquired ownership of the house in a “partition” of his father’s real estate. In those proceedings, the house was identified as “Purpart No.3”. see Deed, Edward Innes to Matthew Hale Jones, G17 276 (4 Oct. 1883)(recitals).

� Weiss & Wright, “Karas Building Is A Family History”, supra; Deed, Edward Innes to Matthew Hale Jones, G17 276 (4 Oct. 1883)(sale price $12,000); see Article, “Interesting Reminiscence, North Third Street a Third of a Century Ago”, Easton Daily Free Press, Thursday, 20 Aug. 1885, p.3 (Matthew Hale Jones residence in 1885). By 1894, Edward Innes was living at 204 Northampton Street. George W. West, West’s Directory of Easton 134 (George W. West 1894).

� See www.WalkingEaston.com entry for Hotel Huntington at 5 North 3rd Street, and sources cited therein.

� Obituary, “M.H. Jones”, Easton Express, Mon., 26 May 1913, p.5, col.3.

� See Deed, Elizabeth H. (W.S.) Kirkpatrick to M. Hale Jones, B32 304 (17 Jan. 1903)(recitals). The will of Matthew Hale Jones was proved on 11 June 1883, recorded in Orphan’s Court Will Book 10 at 177, and filed in Northampton County Orphan’s Court File No.10753.

� See, e.g., George W. West (compiler), West’s Easton City Directory (George W. West 1898) (alphabetical listing for Robert I. Jones at 55 Centre Square).

� See Article, “Interesting Reminiscence, North Third Street a Third of a Century Ago”, Easton Daily Free Press, Thursday, 20 Aug. 1885, p.3 (In 1852 “Dr. Charles Innes occupied the residence where M.H. Jones, Jr. now resides”); J.H. Lant, Easton [Etc.] Directory for 1884-5 76 (1884)(Same law offices but M. Hale Jones residence now listed at 20 North 3rd Street). See also W.M.R. Williamson (Mgr.), Ferris Bros. Northampton County Directory 73 (Ferris Bros., Printers and Book Binders, Wilmington, Del., 1885)(M. Hale Jones house at 20 north 3rd Street).

In 1880, both had lived in the Jones Family homestead with their father. 1880 Census, Series T9, Roll 1161, p.384C (53 Centre Square); see J.H. Lant & Son, Easton [Etc.] Directory 1881-82 65 (1881)(M.H. Jones and R.I. Jones house at 55 Centre Square); J.H. Lant, Easton [Etc.] Directory for 1883-4 75 (1883)(M. Hale Jones, Jr. residing at 55 Centre Square with his brother, R.I. Jones and sharing the same law offices at 15 No 3rd Street).

�Deed, M. Hale Jones to Elizabeth H. Kirkpatrick, D19 195 (14 Jan. 1887); cf. Weiss & Wright, “Karas Building Is A Family History”, supra.

� See George W. West, West’s Directory for Easton [Etc.] 72 (George W. West 1887)( M. Hale Jones back residing with Robert I. Jones at 55 Centre Square); George W. West (compiler), West’s Directory for Easton, [Etc.] 122 (George W. West 1889)(same).

� George W. West, West’s Directory for Easton [Etc.] 78 (George W. West 1887)(William S. Kirkpatrick, Attorney General and lawyer, house at 20 North 3rd Street); George W. West (compiler), West’s Directory of Easton [Etc.] 124 (George W. West 1892)(same). See also George W. West (compiler), West’s Directory for Easton, [Etc.] 130 (George W. West 1889)(William S. Kirkpatrick residence at 20 “South” 3rd Street – apparently a typographical error).

Judge Kirkpatrick’s former residence had been at 122 North 3rd Street. J.H. Lant, Easton [Etc.] Directory for 1883-4 75 (1883); Census Directory of Northampton County (Eleventh U.S. Census 1890) 45 (Joseph H. Werner 1891).

�William J. Heller, II History of Northampton County and The Grand Valley of the Lehigh Biographical Section 17, 20-21 (American Historical Society 1920); John W. Jordan, Edgar Moore Green & George T. Ettinger, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of the Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania 104 (The Lewis Publishing Co. 1905, reprint by Higginson Book Co.); Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 244-46 (1879).

Judge Kirkpatrick had begun practicing law in the office of his grandfather, William L. Sebring, an Easton lawyer and “scrivener” (notary) who became an Associate Judge of the Northampton County Court in 1851. Sebring preferred “a more active life” than the practice of law, however, and mainly practiced as a surveyor and engineer, as well as serving on the Easton town council, Prothonotary of Northampton County, and “several terms” in the Pennsylvania Legislature. He died in 1880. Michael C. Schrader, Bench and Bar, Vol. V of Two Hundred Years of Life in Northampton County, PA. A Bicentennial Review 99-100 (Northampton County Bicentennial Commission 1976).

Judge Kirkpatrick had studied law (as a young man) with Easton lawyer H. D. Maxwell, later the President Judge of the Third Judicial District of Pennsylvania. Heller, II History of Northampton County, supra at 20. Later, his law firm was Kirkpatrick & Maxwell (id.), evidently a partner with Judge Maxwell’s son, Henry D. Maxwell, Jr. Id.; see generally separate entry for 208 Spring Garden Street.

� Nancy J. Sanquist (Project Director, Office of Preservation, Easton City Hall), Easton Architectural and Historical Survey Manual unnumbered p.15 (August 1978).

� See Article, “Interesting Reminiscence, North Third Street a Third of a Century Ago”, Easton Daily Free Press, Thursday, 20 Aug. 1885, p.3 (constructed after 1852)(“Judge Kirkpatrick’s two handsome houses . . . occupied by Frank Burke and Mrs. Kirkpatrick”); see Census Directory of Northampton County (Eleventh U.S. Census 1890) 45 (Joseph H. Werner 1891)(Susan Kirkpatrick and Morris Kirkpatrick (lawyer), separate listings at 122 North Third Street; William Kirkpatrick and his family were listed at 20 North Third Street).

The “Mrs. [Susan] Kirkpatrick” in this residence apparently refers to the Judge’s mother. See 1850 Census, Series M432, Roll 802, p.128A (Susan and Newton Kirkpatrick, ages 30 and 25 respectively, with (among others) William Kirkpatrick age 6 – i.e. born in 1844, consistent with Judge Kirkpatrick’s biography); 1870 Census, Series M593, Roll 1382, p.61B (Susan Kirkpatrick, age 40, with attorney-at-law William age 25, tannery clerk Morris age 23, and “Voila” [Viola] age 19).

Interestingly, the 1850 Census record would have made Mrs. Susan Kirkpatrick about 55 years old in 1880, although she appears to have shaved a few years off of her age for the Census survey of that year. See 1880 Census, Series T9, Roll 1161, p.387D (S. Kirkpatrick, age 50, living at 246 Bushkill St. with her son Morris Kirkpatrick, age 31, an attorney-at-law). Based upon the 1850 Census record, she would have been 75 years old in 1900. In that Census, still living at 122 North 3rd Street, she listed her age as 78 (born 1821). See 1900 Census, Series T623, Roll 1447, p.70B (widowed).

�1900 Census, Series T623, Roll 1447, p.69 (William Kirkpatrick).

�The Judge appears to have moved to 123 Reeder St. by 1910. See 1910 Census, Series T624, Roll 1381, p.45B; 1920 Census, Series T625, Roll 1609, p.126B.

� 1910 Census, Series T624, Roll 1381, p.7B.

� 1920 Census, Series T625, Roll 1161, p.98B.

� Leonard S. Buscemi, Sr., The 2001 Easton-Phillipsburg Calendar 66 (Buscemi Enterprises 2000).

�Leonard S. Buscemi, Sr., Easton Remembered 79 (Buscemi Enterprises 2007). See also Leonard S. Buscemi, Sr., The Easton-Phillipsburg 2008 Calendar back cover (Buscemi Enterprises 2007), showing John and Margaret Limeberry in the conservatory (greenhouse) of Kleinhan’s Florist shop. The conservatory has been dismantled; the side and back passage is where it used to stand. Mr. Buscemi’s caption indicates that John Limeberry was a “proprietor” of the shop, but his speech at the Easton Catholic Community Center on 1 Oct. 2007 disclosed a more recent interview which suggested that although Mr. Limeberry thought he had been promised a proprietary interest in the flower store in exchange for low wages as a clerk, in fact it was never given to him.

� West’s Easton Pa. and Phillipsburg, N.J. Directory 338, 715 (R.L. Polk & Co. of Philadelphia 1930)(Kleinhans Flower Shop and other tenants, Arthur B. Kleinhans resident on North Delaware Drive); see 1930 Census, Series T626, Roll 2087, p.12B (silk mill thrower Margaret V. Hilliard resident at this address).

� Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1937-38 294, 732 (R.L. Polk & Co., Inc. 1937); see 1940 Census, Series T627, Roll 3590, p.5A (Arthur Kleinhans family).

�Deed, The First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Company, Executor of the Will of Donald M. Kirkpatrick, and Miles Kirkpatrick, Executor of the Will of William H. Kirkpatrick, to Harold Kares, 409 563 (20 Aug. 1971)(recitals); Weiss & Wright, “Karas Building Is A Family History”, supra.

� See Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1951 661 (R.L. Polk & Co., Inc. 1951).

� Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1961 Street & Avenue Guide 5 (R.L. Polk & Co., Inc. 1961)(Ken’s Delicatessen, Bea’s Beauty Shop, and optometrist Bensen Y. Olenick in the building); Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1966 Street & Avenue Guide 7 (R.L. Polk & Co., Inc. 1966).

� Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1967 Street & Avenue Guide 5 (R.L. Polk & Co., Inc. 1967).

�Deed, The First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Company, Executor of the Will of Donald M. Kirkpatrick, and Miles Kirkpatrick, Executor of the Will of William H. Kirkpatrick, to Harold Kares, 409 563 (20 Aug. 1971)(sale price $35,000; and recitals); Weiss & Wright, “Karas Building Is A Family History”, supra; Madeleine Mathias, “Bookstore Founder Turning to New Page”, The Morning Call, 11 July 1994, p. B-1; see also James Flagg, “Council OKs Kares Building Renovation”, The Express-Times, Thursday, 29 March 1979, p.13.

� See Weiss & Wright, “Karas Building Is A Family History”, supra.

� See Weiss & Wright, “Karas Building Is A Family History”, supra; Madeleine Mathias, “Bookstore Founder Turning to New Page”, The Morning Call, 11 July 1994, p. B-1; see also James Flagg, “Council OKs Kares Building Renovation”, The Express-Times, Thursday, 29 March 1979, p.13. See also Weiss & Wright, “Karas Building Is A Family History”, supra (the Easton Express headline spelling of “Karas” is NOT supported by the article, which correctly spells Dr. Kares’s name.

� Notice by Redevelopment Authority of Easton, Pennsylvania, Condemnation of Property and Declaration of Taking, Docket No.78 April Term 1976, Urban Renewal Plan for Project No. CD-2, Misc. 251 287 (20 May 1976)(includes 18-20 North 3rd Street, 31 North 4th Street, and 33-35 North 4th Street); see Weiss & Wright, “Karas Building Is A Family History”, supra.

� Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1977 Street & Avenue Guide 5 (R.L. Polk & Co., Inc. 1977). In the prior year, Ken’s Delicatessen and Harold Kares, as well as other tenants, had been listed in the building. Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1966 Street & Avenue Guide 5 (R.L. Polk & Co., Inc. 1966).

� Deed, Easton Parking and Realty Corp. to Harold Kares, 552-000972 (9 Sept. 1976)(property noted as Block 17, Lot 10). In 1983, Kares added the lot at 64 North Bank Street behind this property. See Deed, Harold and Ethel Kares to Lee N. and Linda L. Orowitz, 792-000236 (1 Jan. 1990)(reciting sale of 64 N. Bank St. by C.B. Realty Co., Inc. to Kares with a deed recorded at 660-001060 dated 29 Nov. 1983).

� Polk’s Easton and Phillipsburg City Directory 1977 254 (R.L. Polk & Co., Inc. 1977).

� See Letter, Lester Kilbanks (Kilbanks Co. Realtors) to Mayor & Council of the City of Easton, etc., 14 March 1979 (in files of Easton Heritage Alliance)(arguing failure to widen Church Street all the way “will have a substantial deleterious effect” on the Northampton Street properties’ usefulness and sale values); Article, “2 historic buildings to be razed in Easton”, The Morning Call, Friday, 13 Nov. 1981, p.B5. See generally www.WalkingEaston.com entry for 301 Northampton Street, and sources cited therein.

� See James Flagg, “Bookseller to Renovate Historic Building”, Easton Express, Wednesday, 28 Feb. 1979, p.13; James Flagg, “Bell tolls (officially) for Cinruss and Patio”, Easton Express, Thursday, 13 Aug. 1981, p.D-1 (“long-running debate”; Toni Mitman “originally protested to the National Advisory Council in 1976 about the use of federal funds to widen Church Street and succeeded in delaying their demolition”).

� See Marie Summa, Frank Summa, & Leonard Buscemi Sr., Images of America: Historic Easton 70 (Arcadia Publishing 2000).

� James Flagg, “Bookseller to Renovate Historic Building”, Easton Express, Wednesday, 28 Feb. 1979, p.13 (“The proposal prompted objections from attorney William Hogan, representing the owners of vacant Woolworth’s building, who argued in favor of the widening of the entire 300 block of Church Street”); James Flagg, “Council OKs Kares Building Rennovation”, Easton Express, Thursday, 29 March 1979, p.13.

� See James Flagg, “Bookseller to Renovate Historic Building”, Easton Express, Wednesday, 28 Feb. 1979, p.13; James Flagg, “Council OKs Kares Building Rennovation”, Easton Express, Thursday, 29 March 1979, p.13 (Councilman “Goldsmith, who offered a compromise to Historic Easton Inc. – the Kares building will stay, but the other two must go”); James Flagg, “Mayor Signs Document Paving Way For Demolitions on N. Fourth Street”, Easton Express, Tuesday, 9 Oct 1979, pp.1, 2; see also James Flagg, “Widened alley to have lights, parking spaces”, Easton Express, Wednesday, 20 Jan. 1982, pp.B-1, B-2; Wick Sloane, “Long life of two Easton buildings reduced to holes”, Easton Express, Sunday, 21 Feb. 1982, p.B12.

� See Deed, Redevelopment Authority of Easton, Pennsylvania to Northampton County Industrial Redevelopment Authority, 598 674 (7 May 1979)(sale price $19,800 for portion of the three parcels taken in 1971).

� Madeleine Mathias, “Bookstore Founder Turning to New Page”, The Morning Call, 11 July 1994, p. B-1.

� Ron Wynkoop telephone conversation, 14 June 2006.

� Deed, Northampton County Industrial Development Authority to Richard (Barbara E.) Epstein), 1999-1-163564 (13 Oct. 1999)(tax basis $156,200).

� Deed, Richard (Barbara E.) Epstein to Andris Danielsons & Joanne S. Moranville, 2003-1-102910 (24 Mar. 2003)(sale price $143,618.17, for property measuring 33.26’ on North 3rd Street, running through (with an approximate 10’ jog in the property line) to frontage of 23.58’ on Bank Street, a depth of 241.64’ overall). The Property ID is L9SE2A 6 2.

� See generally Leonard S. Buscemi, The Easton-Phillipsburg 2003 Calendar unnumbered p.92 (2002)(pictures of dining area).

� See Kurt Bresswein, “Easton mayor encourages residents to clean up streets”, Express-Times, Tues., 11 May 2004, p.B-8; Russ Flanagan, “Shop owner hopes watchers put chill on illicit activities”, Express-Times, Sun., 7 Mar. 2004, p.B-1; cf. Tony Nauroth, “Behind the crime scene, life goes on – The intrusion of crime leaves a dirty backdrop to city’s vibrant street life”, Express-Times, Sun., 30 July 2000, p.A-1.

� Article, “Trophies: Aid Abounds After Student Injured”, Express-Times, Sat., 11 Oct. 2014, p.A-4; Article, “City looks to charge festivals for police and other services”, Express-Times, Tues., 4 Nov. 2014, p.A-1.

� See Jimmy P. Miller, “Forecast is chili and hot”, Express-Times, Mon., 24 Jan. 2000, p.B-1.