The former home of Wyoming County Sheriff Robert Truesdale was torn down on Wednesday, after being damaged by fire several months ago. Most recently an apartment house, it was still revered as one of the more stately Victorian-style homes in the borough’s historic district. In fact, members of the 2017 Leadership Wyoming team were taking part in a Historic Tunkhannock Walking Tour when they happened up on the destruction of the iconic structure.
Photos and story by Rick Hiduk
“That house was always kept beautifully,” Danielle Munley noted on Facebook of the Wyoming Avenue building. “It’s a shame it’s been lost.”
“It was a beautiful Victorian house,” added Sylvia Repsher. “The kind that can’t be reproduced.”
In fact, many ornate architectural elements from the porch and other portions of the house were recognizable in the immediate wreckage that might have been salvaged for reuse or as templates for woodworkers.
“So painful to see such a beautiful house gone,” Janice Fitzgerald McClintock remarked.
Some on Facebook speculated that the house had been demolished to make room for a new parking lot for the adjacent Wyoming County Jail, but another Facebook user maintained that such was not the case.
“You could easily stand in front and not know that it was burned,” Michael Lione commented. “”It must have been a lot worse inside since it got razed.”
Photo of the pre-damaged house as posted on Facebook by Sylvia Repsher