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

ITALIANATE

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In Titusville, Frederick Crocker, an oil producer, built his Italianate home at 322 N. Washington. (See below)
 
322 North Washington Street, Titusville, Pennsylvania

Crocker completed this house in 1870.  Essentially a regular and symmetrical cube, the house has a prominent cupola centered over the mass.  Semicircular gables with the wall surfaces rising above the eave line are centrally situated over each facade.  The curve of the gable eaves are reflected in the eaves of the cupola.  Both deep drawn, decorative brackets and classical modillions are used to suggest support for the overhanging eaves. Paired windows with pediment and wing hoods give the structure appropriate details.  The original porch section you see today is what remains of the original full-width veranda supported by squared posts and detailed with brackets.  Crocker sold this house in 1879 to Walter Roberts whose brother, E.A. Roberts, was Crocker’s  earlier rival in the oil well torpedo business. 

About 1870 Adnah Neyhart built this fine Italianate on Main Street in Tidioute. 
 

Neyhart House on Main Street in Tidioute, Pennsylvania

The house was given a cupola and broad, overhanging eaves.  Deep drawn brackets support the eaves.  A large frieze with small rectangular attic windows is around the walls of the house below the overhanging eaves.  This Greek Revival influence is accentuated with the unusually thick dentil molding at the corner formed by the eave and frieze.  The first floor Italianate windows are tall, some paired and surrounded with appropriate curved hoods.  The entrance reflects the window surrounds.  The house has retained its original, “L”-shaped veranda.  Neyhart was a partner in the firm of Neyhart and Grandin, very successful oil producers in the late 1860's and early 1870's.  Neyhart and Grandin along with Vandergrift and Forman were the principal suppliers of crude to Rockefeller’s Standard Of Ohio in the early 1870's.  Adnah Neyhart died in 1875, a young man. 

 

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