Former Pollock Mansion Highlights Pottstown Holiday House Tour

POTTSTOWN — The Historic Pottstown Neighborhood Association is bringing back its popular house tour, Historic Pottstown by Candlelight, on Sunday, Dec 9.  This year’s tour, planned after a one-year hiatus in 2011, will be the 26th version of what has become the most important holiday festival in the surrounding area.

The tour’s planners are this year breaking new ground by bringing participants a look at a more recently constructed home, one that was built in the 1940s.  No one today can recall the original owner’s name, but in 1946 it was purchased by William and Hindela (Orensten) Pollock and over the years it has became known to everyone as the Pollock Mansion.

The Pollock family name is readily recognized by most Pottstown-area residents as the owner of Mayer Pollock Steel Corp., 850 Industrial Highway.  This longtime Pottstown-based company was founded in 1888 by Mayer Pollock, who immigrated to America from Russia in 1884.  Like many men looking for a better life in this country, Pollock left his family behind and brought them here only after he made a home for them.

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Wyndcroft Breaking Ground For New School In Pottstown

Location of Pottstown in Montgomery County (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

POTTSTOWN, PA — Despite a generally gray day and enough of a chill to keep jackets on their shoulders, the sun broke through enough to match the cheery spirits of those gathered at 443 Highland Road Sunday.

The Wyndcroft School officially broke ground for its new Early-Education Center. The new center is part of the school’s “Creating a Campus” expansion campaign in the Rosedale Street section of Pottstown.

“We’re just thrilled we can create this area,” said The Wyndcroft’s Head of School Gail Wolter.

The new section of the school housing its pre-kindergartern classes of 3- and 4-year-olds will actually be a renovated and expanded “manor” house built in the 1920s. Sitting across Rosedale Street, the building was the former home of several people who attended the ground-breaking. One was a woman who actually attended The Wyndcroft as a child.

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