The Metcalf Mansion

The Metcalf Mansion Follow along as we restore and preserve The Metcalf Mansion, built in 1895 for Mr. Henry Freeman and Mrs. https://airbnb.com/h/TheRiverRetreat18657

Pamelia Benedict Metcalf, in historic downtown Tunkhannock, PA. Enjoy photos, videos, and updates as we preserve this local and historic landmark! ❤️ We love restoring local properties and bringing them back to life! ❤️

We purchased The Metcalf Mansion in April 2024 and have a HUGE restoration project that we need to complete before we can make it available for events and guests! Through this res

toration, we've decided to be very public about it and to share the journey with our local and online community! It has been such a blessing to be on this journey with our community as the encouragement, love, support, and donations consistently remind us to keep going and keep sharing! We hope you will follow along, engage with the page, share with your friends, and enjoy the journey! We also hope that our love for this place and our community inspires you to be as intentional as possible to love your community and to take action toward preserving and promoting your local history! If you want to get involved/offer support, we would LOVE it if you'd:
-Stay engaged on the page and enjoy the journey with us!
-Invite your friends to like our page, share about it in your facebook groups, etc.
-Keep your eyes open for beautiful free/low cost Victorian era items that are looking for a new home and share the links/contact info with us
-Tell your friends/family about our other properties (located in Tunkhannock, PA) and/or if you're local, consider booking for a staycation or special event!
-In the future, we plan to create a non-profit for the purpose of preserving and promoting The Metcalf Mansion and local history! The White House on Warren 4 Bedrooms • 2 ½ Baths • Sleeps 8
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Here's another local, historic photo shared with us by Blair Davis.🥰McKown’s Garage parade float, with Hank Dunn, John F...
05/14/2026

Here's another local, historic photo shared with us by Blair Davis.🥰

McKown’s Garage parade float, with Hank Dunn, John Farr, “Major” (not sure who he is), and Blair's great Uncle Sam Farr, and unknown children possibly around 1928

Blair said she believes this was in downtown Tunkhannock.

Could any local history lovers help us identify the location and/or people in the photo?

How cool is this on the second story? We have photos of this from about 100 years ago. We will update those photos here ...
05/14/2026

How cool is this on the second story?

We have photos of this from about 100 years ago. We will update those photos here once we can find them. It’s a bit challenging to keep up with hundreds of awesome photos from over the years! ❤️

Another exciting project here at The Metcalf Mansion!🥰
05/14/2026

Another exciting project here at The Metcalf Mansion!🥰

We're not sure if we have any photos of Mr. Joseph Armstrong (yet) but read here that "he carried on farming...and looke...
05/14/2026

We're not sure if we have any photos of Mr. Joseph Armstrong (yet) but read here that "he carried on farming...and looked after the chores around the premesis of H.F. Metcalf".

Over the years, many different people worked on the property of Mr. Henry Metcalf. We'd be so thrilled to find photos of the various people (farmers, maids, drivers, helpers, etc.) so we could have them on display someday.

If anyone knows of anyone who used to work here, please reach out/send us a private message!

What an interesting excerpt from a local newspaper in 1871:"Harry Metcalf...broke his fore-arm...he had been playing wit...
05/13/2026

What an interesting excerpt from a local newspaper in 1871:

"Harry Metcalf...broke his fore-arm...he had been playing with several of his associates on the empty coal cars...this should be a warning against playing about the railroad cars."

We like how they refer to his friends as "his associates"! 🤣 ❤️

We just can't wait to welcome guests here again! ❤️Fun fact: These photos are from the other day when we made The Metcal...
05/13/2026

We just can't wait to welcome guests here again! ❤️

Fun fact: These photos are from the other day when we made The Metcalf Mansion available for local prom photos!

Judge Charles Edwin Terry and Mrs. Emma (Benedict) Terry were very closely related to The Metcalf Family as Emma was Pam...
05/13/2026

Judge Charles Edwin Terry and Mrs. Emma (Benedict) Terry were very closely related to The Metcalf Family as Emma was Pamelia's sister.

The young ladies picture here were the children of Judge & Mrs. Terry so they were the nieces of Henry and Pamelia:
-Ruth E. Terry 1881-1907
"She was an invalid for many years before her death"-Findagrave.com

-Helen Day Terry 1883-1954
"Ms. Terry was a daughter of Judge Charles E. Terry and Emma Benedict Terry. She never married and apparently lived with her parents until their deaths. She never worked outside the home, but was president of the Library Board of the Tunkhannock library and was active in the Presbyterian church. She was survived by cousins."-Findagrave.com

You can learn more about their family here: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/231722665/emma_m-terry

*If you know of any closely related family members to this family, would you please reach out? We'd love to show photos to any remaining/related family members.*

More photos from the collection of Blair Davis! 🥰These photos are of Henry Dunn, Howard Manuel and Blair's grandfather, ...
05/12/2026

More photos from the collection of Blair Davis! 🥰

These photos are of Henry Dunn, Howard Manuel and Blair's grandfather, John Farr, on the porch of 41 Wyoming Ave (where John Farr's family lived) around 1923.

FYI-Henry Dunn was a grandson of Henry and Pamelia Metcalf of The Metcalf Mansion!

At it again!!❤️Removing paint is so rewarding!
05/12/2026

At it again!!❤️

Removing paint is so rewarding!

Does anyone know where this rock is at? Is it here in Tunkhannock? We just love photos from days gone by and would love ...
05/12/2026

Does anyone know where this rock is at? Is it here in Tunkhannock?

We just love photos from days gone by and would love to find this location! ❤️

Fun fact: We still haven't been able to identify everyone in these photos yet the one young lady (second in from the right) appears to be a daughter of Henry and Pamelia Metcalf!

Thank you so much to our friend, Blair Davis, for sharing photos from her family's photo collection! 🥰We had a blast see...
05/11/2026

Thank you so much to our friend, Blair Davis, for sharing photos from her family's photo collection! 🥰

We had a blast seeing photos of her family, members of the Metcalf family, other children in the neighborhood, and the historic homes in the background of many of these photos we'll be posting.

If you are local, or are very familiar with the local houses here in the Tunkhannock Historic District, please let us know the houses you can identify in these photos!

This first photo of is of Howard Manuel and Blair's grandfather, John Farr, on Pennsylvania Avenue around 1912!

(Behind the scenes info--we previously posted a photo with Metcalf relatives and Howard Manuel yet weren't sure of the connection. The more we learn, we realize that a lot of the children here in the neighborhood around The Metcalf Mansion had their photos taken together over the years!)

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50 West Harrison Street
Tunkhannock, PA
18657

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+15705758189

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