Editing Asa Packer (section)

==Legacies==
[[File:Residence of Hon. Asa Packer, by M. A. Kleckner.png|thumb|Stereotype card of the [[Asa Packer Mansion]]]]
Packer's residence, [[Asa Packer Mansion]], became a museum, opened for tours in 1956, and was named a [[National Historic Landmark]] in 1985. Packer was a member of [[St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania)|St. Mark's Episcopal Church]] in [[Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania]] and contributed large amounts of money to this Gothic Revival Church. St. Mark's was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987. There is an elementary school in [[Bethlehem, Pennsylvania]] named after Packer.

[[Lehigh University]] continues to honor him with a large portrait by [[Charles A. Boutelle]] and an annual celebration of Founder's Day.{{sfn|Yates|1983|p=19}} A life-sized bronze by Karel Mikolas, donated by the Lehigh University Class of 2003 and dedicated in 2008, stands outside Lehigh University's Alumni Memorial Building.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Harbrecht |first1=Linda |title=Asa comes home |url=https://www2.lehigh.edu/news/asa-comes-home |access-date=16 November 2019 |agency=Lehigh News |date=11 January 2005}}</ref> [[Lehigh Valley Railroad]] named a passenger train after him, the ''Asa Packer'' which ran to and from [[New York City]] to [[Pittston, Pennsylvania]] until 1959.