THE NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA VICTORIAN REGION
Locations

Emlenton
Franklin
Oil City
Tionesta
Titusville
Pleasantville
Meadville
Tidioute
Endeavor
Warren
Sheffield
Bradford
Smethport
Ridgway

Styles

Adam
Greek Revival
Classical Revival
Gothic Revival
Italianate
Second Empire
Stick
Queen Anne
Shingle
Colonial Revival
Neoclassical
Tudor
English Cottage

COLONIAL REVIVAL


615 West Second Street, Oil City, Pennsylvania

The house at 615 W. Second in Oil City (As Shown Above) is an excellent demonstration of the sublime beauty of classical proportion, symmetrical massing and balance.  With very little decorative detail, this superb Colonial Revival retains a powerful and moving presence. The impressive entrance is surrounded by vertical sidelights and a double array of elliptical lights overhead. This theme is repeated in the central dormer above.

The Colonial Revival architectural theme continued well into the twentieth century.  As time passed, the examples became more historically accurate, true replicas of buildings which existed a hundred and fifty years before.  The house at 926 Elk Street in Franklin (As Shown Below) is an example of this. 

926 Elk Street, Franklin, Pennsylvania

This early twentieth century house, the Louise Mullins Thompson House, is much newer than its Victorian Colonial Revival predecessors, but it looks so much more antiquarian.  It is an excellent replica of an Adam period brick house built in the South and mid Atlantic States,  but it is not a true Victorian.

 

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