A long-vacant, iconic structure in Catasauqua is on the verge of being transformed into its former luster. The Dery mansion, unoccupied since 2006 and in a state of disrepair, has been purchased ...

To Monica Bugbee, D. George Dery was a vision from the past. Growing up in the Catasauqua of the 1930s, she remembers seeing the former silk manufacturer on those mornings when she and her sister w… ...

Herve Rousseau, New York restaurateur and owner of the Dery Mansion, has worked to give a much-needed facelift to a Catasauqua gem that was all-but-abandoned in 2017.

Dery, who in subsequent years only engaged in minor business activity, moved out of the mansion and into a small house, Lathrop said. He died in 1942, she said.

Once upon a time, roughly 100 years ago, Catasauqua was known as the "Borough of Millionaires," and the "Birthplace of America's Industrial Revolution." The town's iron- making Thomas family, who ...

CATASAUQUA, Pa. - On a dreary September morning there's perhaps no brighter place, with its Tiffany-stained class ceiling, than inside Catasauqua's Dery Mansion.