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


GREEK REVIVAL
(Greek - Page 3 of 3)
Free Methodist Church at North Main Street in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania

 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.
 

Kingsland House at 107 North Franklin Street in Titusville, Pennsylvania

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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