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Oct 11, 1972 · BLOOMSBURG, Pa., Oct. 10 — Harry L. Magee, former chairman, president and treas urer of the Magee Carpet Com pany, died at the Bloomsburg Hospital yesterday of a com plication of diseases.
Dec 2, 2014 · Updated: 4:50 PM EST December 2, 2014. BLOOMSBURG -- A building which some people in Bloomsburg consider historic is being torn down after it was damaged by the floods of 2006 and 2011. The Magee ...
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Oct 3, 2006 · The Magee Family and the Magee Carpet Co. as told to Patchwork by Drue Magee. Interviewed by Katie Howe and Caitlin Levan in the spring of 2001. Drue Magee, a Bloomsburg resident, is the granddaughter of Harry Magee. Drue is an instrumental part of the family-owned businesses in town. Harry Magee brought a highly successful industry to the town ...
Jun 24, 2013 · In the 1940s, Harry Magee, local carpet magnate, tore down the house at 700 W. Main St., to build what he later described as a house "built along the lines of semi-ranch house style with Spanish motifs." Construction was completed in 1947. Now, 66 years later, its current owner Bloomsburg University plans to demolish the structure after it flooded in 2006 and 2011. Here's a look at the ...
The Magee Transportation Museum opened in the mid 1960's just out-side of Bloomsburg, PA along the Bloomsburg-Millville Road. The old stone farmhouse became the site where the vision of one Harry Magee would become reality, here the Magee Transportation Museum was formed along with the Magee Shortway Electric Railroad.
Fleet Number (s)ThumbnailYear2-3Ex-Rio De Janiero, Brazil.55186710719108011912A no-holds-barred portrait of Bloomsburg’s most colorful magnate and his fascinating museums, with detailed coverage of his noted collection of trolley cars and their restoration. By the former Director of the museums. 6”x9” softbound, 160 pages, 65 photos, index
Harry L. Magee House. 1946, Berninger, Haag and d’Entremont. 700 W. Main St. International modernism came to Bloomsburg in this house commissioned by carpet maker Harry Magee, a gregarious industrialist who served as general contractor. He turned to Philadelphia architects for the design, which was featured in a 1948 issue of Life magazine.
