Marvine Colliery, Boiler House No. 2, West side Boulevard Avenue, between East Parker Street & Route 380, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA

Significance: Marvine Colliery is important to local history for its relationship to the development of the Anthracite Mining Industry in northeast Pennsylvania, "The Anthracite Capital of the World" 1890-1930. Boiler House No. 2 was the first structure built by the Marvine Colliery to the east of the Lackawanna River. The construction of Boiler House No. 2 was important to the development of the Marvine Colliery's east site, for this structure housed the boilers which provided steam power used to operate the apparatus in all mining structures built by this colliery in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Survey number: HAER PA-183-A
Building/structure dates: 1898 Initial Construction