The Senator Walter Lowrie Shaw House is a historic home located in downtown Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known in the area for being the home of Butler's only United States Senator, Walter Lowrie. The structure was built in 1828, and is a 2 1/2-story, brick dwelling on a cut stone foundation. It has a slate covered gable roof. The front section measures 48 feet by 38 feet and has a two-story, shed roofed rear wing. A front porch was added about 1870–1880. It is considered the last of its kind in the city of Butler. The house is situated behind the Butler County Courthouse, houses the Butler County Historical Society's office, and is maintained as a museum by the Society.
First Presbyterian Church of West Chester is a historic Presbyterian church located at 130 W. Miner Street in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was designed in 1832 by Thomas U. Walter, who later became the fourth Architect of the Capitol. The church is a stuccoed stone building measuring 75 feet long and 45 feet wide in the Greek Revival style. Additions were built in 1860 and 1955. The front facade features a recessed porch flanked by two projections with pilasters.
Lutz-Franklin School is a historic one-room school building located at Lower Saucon Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1880, and is a one-story, rectangular stone building with a belfry in the Late Victorian style. A front porch was added in 1901. The building measures 32 feet by 38 feet and has a slate covered gable roof. It was used as a school until 1958.
Centre County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania. The original section was built in 1805, with additions and / or remodeling in 1835, 1854–55, 1909, and 1963-64. It is a rectangular brick building on a stone foundation, measuring 135 feet long by 60 feet wide. The building is faced in stucco and has a gable roof topped by a cupola. It features a Greek Revival style entry porch with eight 26 foot high smooth faced columns with Ionic order capitals. The porch was added in 1835. In June 2012, it was the site of the trial of Jerry Sandusky in the Penn State sex abuse scandal.
Centre Mills is a historic grist mill located at Miles Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1802-1803, and is a two-story fieldstone building, with a basement and attic. It measures 44 feet, 10 inches, by 58 feet, and has a gable roof. Also on the property are a barn, stone house, and miller's house. The stone house was built in 1813, and is a two-story stone dwelling, measuring 40 feet by 30 feet, with a two-story frame addition. It features a porch supported by Corinthian order columns. The miller's house is a frame dwelling on a stone foundation. The stone house is operated as a bed and breakfast.
S. B. Brodbeck Housing, also known as The Brick House, is a set of four historic rowhouses located at Codorus Township, Pennsylvania, York County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1890–1891, and is a three-story, plus attic, brick building. It has a mansard roof with a fish-scale slate pattern in the Second Empire-style. The row measures 73 feet wide and 29 feet deep. It features a full-length two-story front porch and balcony, with an intricate railing and post bracket pattern. It was built by locally prominent Samuel B. Brodbeck.
Emig Mansion is a historic home located at Emigsville, Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania, US. It was built in about 1810 and is a 2½-story, Georgian-style brick dwelling. It measures about 66 feet long by 30 feet wide. It is five bays wide and two bays deep and has a slate-covered gable roof. A large wing was added in about 1885. The wing is four bays by two bays and integral porches. The house was remodeled in the early-20th century to add a large two-story bay window and porches. The front porch has Doric order columns and the porch on the south facade is semi-circular.
Grand Army of the Republic Building is a historic Grand Army of the Republic building located at Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1886, and is a red brick and granite building in the Romanesque Revival-style. It consists of two sections: a three-story with full basement section measuring 40 feet by 60 feet, and a 40 feet by 34 feet section with four stories and a full basement. It features a porch with red granite columns, a carved brick archway, an ornate carved brick cornice, cast stone arches, and corner turret with round cupola and finial rising to a height of 90 feet. It originally housed a hotel and Masonic Temple, but was purchased by the Grand Army of the Republic in 1901.
Israel Platt Pardee Mansion is a historic home located at Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect George Franklin Barber and built in 1893. It is a large, 3-story, 19 room, clapboarded Victorian dwelling in the Queen Anne style. It measures approximately 50 feet wide, 75 feet deep, and 50 feet tall. It features a huge, tin-roofed wraparound porch and a turret. Also on the property is a contributing carriage house. The house was built by Israel Platt Pardee, son of Ario Pardee founder of Hazleton.
George W. Search House is a historic home located at Shickshinny, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1860 and altered between 1916 and 1928. It is a two-story, two bay wide rectangular gable front building. It measures 26 feet wide by 53 feet deep, and is clad in clapboard. It features stained glass windows and a wraparound porch.
Christiana Lindsey House is a historic home located at Mercer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1881, and is a 2 1/2-story, brick residence with a 2-story rear ell in the Italianate style. It measures 34 feet wide and 39 feet deep. It sits on a raised ashlar sandstone foundation and has a slate covered truncated hipped roof. It features an elaborately detailed full-width front porch. Also on the property is a contributing summer kitchen, built about 1881.
Continental Stove Works, also known as the Buckwalter Stove Company, is a historic factory complex and national historic district located at Royersford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It consists of 16 contributing buildings and one structure. The complex was built in two sections: between 1876 and 1924 and 1898 and 1908, some of which are interconnected. They are generally built of brick with stone foundations. One of the oldest buildings was built in 1876-1877, and is a 5 1/2-story, brick warehouse measuring 50 feet wide and 96 feet long. Another was also built in 1876-1877, and is a two-story brick building measuring 39 feet by 50 feet. The office building was also originally built in 1876-1877, and subsequently expanded to its present three-story size by 1923. The complex housed a number of regionally important producers of stoves during the late-19th and early-20th century. After the regional stove manufacturing industry collapsed during the Great Depression, the complex was occupied by a number of warehouses.
Burd Patterson House is a historic home located at Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1830, and is a 2 1/2-story, brick mansion in the Federal style. A rear addition was built about 1835, connecting the main house to a formerly separate summer kitchen. The main house measures 27 feet by 40 feet. It features a Queen Anne style porch added before 1900.
Sylvanus Mulford House, also known as John Lyons House, is a historic home located at Montrose, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, USA. It was built in 1818 and is a two-story, frame Saltbox style dwelling on a stone foundation, measuring 40 feet by 47 feet. It has a full-width front porch supported by four large columns. Connected to the house is a two-story, frame barn built in 1856.
Chamounix is a historic home located in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Federal-style house was built in 1802 by George Plumsted who was a wealthy Philadelphia merchant, then enlarged to nearly double its original size by subsequent owners after 1853. Chamounix is a 2½-story stuccoed stone dwelling measuring 45 feet long and 47 feet deep, featuring a hipped roof with dormers and a porch on three sides with decorative iron supports. The house served as a country retreat until it was appropriated by the state via eminent domain in 1869 to become a part of Fairmount Park, from which time it was used in various ways including as a boarding house, a restaurant, and a refreshment stand. After years of neglect and then fire damage, the Fairmount Park Commission decided to demolish Chamounix; however, a local youth hostel committee successfully petitioned to save it and, since 1964, it has served as an international youth hostel.
Amos Kelly House is a historic home located at Cambridge Springs, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1873 and 1876, and is large two-story rectangular frame dwelling in the Italianate style. It measures approximately 95 feet by 60 feet. The front facade features a large front porch, overhanging eaves, and a square cupola.
Isaac Stover House is a historic home located at Erwinna, Tinicum Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was built in the 1850s and remodeled in the 1870s. It is a two-story, six-bay, brick dwelling in the Second Empire style. It has a full width front porch. It sits on a sandstone foundation and features a slate-covered mansard roof with dormers.
Vansant Farmhouse, also known as Overlook Valley Farm, is a historic home located near Rushland, Wrightstown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The original section was built in 1768, and is a two-story stone structure measuring approximately 15 feet square, with a one-story kitchen addition. The main house was added about 1820, and is two-story, stuccoed-stone structure. A one-story porch was added in the 20th century.
William Everhart Buildings, also known as the Everhart-Lincoln Building, is a historic commercial building located in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built by Congressman William Everhart (1785-1868) about 1833, and is a three-story, three bay, rectangular brick building in the Federal style. It measures 40 feet long and between 20 and 25 feet wide. The front facade features a hipped roof second story wrought iron porch added in 1868. The building housed a number of printing concerns, most notably newspapers. It was the printing house where Abraham Lincoln's first biography was published on February 11, 1860, as an article in the Chester County Times.
Black Horse Inn, also known as Sampson & the Lion, is a historic inn and tavern located in Flourtown, Springfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The original section was built in 1744, and is a 2 1⁄2-story, stuccoed stone structure, with a 1-story, stone kitchen addition in the rear. The original section measures 16 feet by 18 feet, and the kitchen addition 15 feet by 15 feet. In 1833, a three-story addition was made to the north and between 1880 and 1908, three one-story additions were made to the rear. Also in 1833, a one-story porch was added to the front, west, and south sides. The building is in the Federal style.
