George Greer House
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Lawrdence County Historical Society (George Greer House)
c. 1900, Frank H. Foulk. 408 N. Jefferson St.
Tin plate magnate George Greer and his wife, Alice White Greer, employed New Castle's best-known architectural firm to design their nineteen-room frame house. They chose a site near other fashionable houses, well above the industrial flats to the southwest along the Shenango River. Ironically, the house built by the owner of a tin plate factory was donated to the Lawrence County Historical Society sixty years later by its then owner Joseph Clavelli, who at one time had been a tin plate worker. The house's proportions, horizontal massing, clustered one-story Corinthian columns supporting the full-facade porch, and attic-story windows suggest the Colonial Revival style. The leaded and stained glass was produced by the H. C. Fry Glass Company of Beaver County.
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Lu Donnelly et al., "Lawrdence County Historical Society (George Greer House)", [New Castle, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-LA10.
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Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 551-551.
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