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Repairs At Johnstown Flood National Memorial

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By NPT Staff - December 3rd, 2020

Exterior repairs are being done on the Lippincott Cottage at Johnstown Flood National Memorial/NPS file

Tackling repairs are a daily chore across the National Park System, whether you work at Yellowstone National Park or Johnstown Flood National Memorial in Pennsylvania.

Johnstown Flood interprets the story of the massive dam failure above Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on May 31, 1889, that killed more than 2,200 men, women, and children.

Work recently got underway on exterior stabilization at the historic Lippincott Cottage. A contractor working under the direction of the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Training Center is on site to replace the roof and gutters to ensure that the building is weather tight and to keep water away. This work will extend into January with further work taking place in the spring.

The Lippincott Cottage once sat on the shores of Lake Conemaugh, which drained with the dam's failure. The cottage was owned by Jesse Lippincott, a member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club. Lippincott was a glassmaker and invested in the Bell Telephone and phonograph industry. This cottage was built in 1885 and is owned by the National Park Service.

You can learn more about Johnstown Flood National Memorial from this story out of Traveler's archives.

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