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| THE NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA VICTORIAN REGION |
| Locations
Emlenton
Styles Adam
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The Free Methodist Church on N. Main Street
in Pleasantville (As Shown Above) was
built in 1848. A very regular mass, the building features a fully
enclosed classical pediment facing the road and supported by substantial
classical pilasters built into the building corners. The rectilinear
front entrance is defined by two pilasters at the sides. This church
structure was constructed on land donated by Aaron Benedict who founded
the village of Pleasantville, first known as Benedictville, in 1821.
Benedict acted as the agent of the Holland Land Company. With a school,
churches, a tannery, pottery and a general store, Pleasantville became
a cultural and commercial center for the surrounding farmers. Benedict
was not only the village’s real estate developer but the justice of the
peace. The village was known as a source of abundant and tasty spring
water, water which disappeared in the oil rush of 1868.
The Kingsland House at 107 N. Franklin in Titusville (As Shown Above) is a very late period Greek Revival built in 1862. Kingsland owned timber land, cleared it, and sold the lumber in the early 1860's to the contractors building Titusville’s houses. This rather large structure is appropriately very regular in mass and plan. The gable ends of the building face to the sides. Pilasters, narrow in scale for the heft of the structure, are defined at the building corners. Note the old technology six over six glass panels in the sash windows. The house was remodeled as a grand hotel in 1865. Likely added when the home became a hotel, the large pediment supported by full-height, fluted columns with prominent Ionic capitals dominates the Franklin Street facade. The small window with the semicircular hood seen in the pediment is inconsistent with the rectilinear and angular nature of Greek Revival. This structure has served as Titusville’s City Hall since 1872. (This is the final page of Greek Revival style. The next page in the series is for the Classical Revival style.)
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