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Hart House and Yerkes Houses

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c. 1892, Milton Bean. 77–79 and 89 S. Broad St.
  • Hart House (© George E. Thomas)
  • (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)

The courthouse square became the focus of elite residences, continuing into the 1890s when this pair of brick Queen Anne houses was designed by Bean, an architect from nearby Lansdale, who enjoyed a run of success in Doylestown after the death of Thomas Cernea.

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George E. Thomas
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George E. Thomas, "Hart House and Yerkes Houses", [Doylestown, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-02-BU35.

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