Courtesy of the Hagley Museum & Library, and the Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society

The Wedge Building
The property at the northwest corner of Lancaster Avenue and South Valley Road have certainly seen many changes. Today’s Penn Liberty Bank was previously the Mellon Bank, and originally opened as the Girard Bank in 1971. For the previous half century, on what is now the bank's parking lot, the Wedge Building had dominated that corner. It took its name not from its shape but rather its owner; it was built by Utley Wedge as the offices for the Electro-Chemical Company, of which he was president. And for fifteen years, from 1939 to 1954, the Acme Market was located immediately to the west of the Wedge Building before its move to the new Paoli Shopping Center in 1954.