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OIL CITY 

	Marcus Hulings House in Oil City, Pennsylvania

Just across the Allegheny River from Route 8 by way of Route 62 is Oil City’s old Victorian residential district.  Known today simply as the South Side, in the nineteenth century it was commonly referred to as Laytonia.  The successful oil producers and brokers, the pipeline owners, the refiners, the oil goods manufacturers, the bankers and the prominent merchants of the time built their fine residences on the South Side.  Remarkably, most of these homes have survived in an extensive Victorian, tree-lined neighborhood which recalls the pleasing ambience of a different day.  Proceeding up Petroleum Street to West Third you come upon the house built by Marcus Hulings in 1878.  The Hulings House is noteworthy for its sheer size and bulk.  The roof eaves feature prominent Italianate overhangs with deeply drawn brackets.  The decorative window surrounds are consistent with the Italianate influence and unusually thick in cross section.  The roof is unique, not representative of the Italianate but probably a stubborn northern Pennsylvania concession to rough winter weather.
 
 

	William J. Innis House in Oil City, Pennsylvania

Several blocks to the west on Third Street you come to Innis.  Up the hill to Fourth Street at the corner with Innis is a particularly large Victorian residence built on a sprawling lot.  William J. Innis was an Oil City inventor and manufacturer.  This house is his monument.  Built originally in 1874 and remodeled several times in the nineteenth century, the house now features large and elaborately decorated trusses and a full classical veranda wrapped about a fundamentally Stick mass.  In the 1880's this house featured a large, well appointed observation cupola above the central roof where Mr. Innis was reported to “communicate” with playful “spirits”, look down on the valley below, and probably smoke cigars.  After his death in 1894, his survivors wasted little time in eliminating the observatory and remodeling the place as you see it today.