Welcome to Northern Pennsylvania's Victorian Region

 
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

MEADVILLE


The Tarr House in Meadville, Pennsylvania

Off the Diamond and near the Courthouse is a large Italianate, the Tarr house.  The Tarrs were farmers from Oil Creek.  Oil was discovered in 1861 on the James Tarr farm in what is now Oil Creek State Park.  After receiving well over $1,000,000 in royalties, James Tarr in 1865 sold his interest in the farm for $2,000,000 in gold.  The Tarrs came to Meadville with their fortune and built this Victorian residence.
 

Victorian Home on Chestnut Street in Meadville, Pennsylvania

Chestnut Street runs up the hill from the Diamond and is perhaps the premier address in the town.  Numerous well kept Victorians on generous lots with mature trees and century-old shrubbery are on both sides of the Street.  On the left side of Chestnut as you go up the street is an excellent brick Victorian structure with two trefoil windows in gables on either side of the tower standing out from the front facade.  The trefoil windows and fleur-de-lis decorated gable vergeboards are Gothic elements interestingly imposed on an Italianate mass.
 

Queen Anne Home near Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania

Over toward Allegheny College stands an elaborate, complex Queen Anne that is a show stopper.  The house features an intricately decorated tower, porches tucked here and there and an unusually constructed chimney offset at a corner of the house with the masonry of the chimney reaching down and over to envelop a large window set in a masomry arch.  Variations of this house can be seen around the country.

 

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