This house, built on the Moran farm, was purchased three years after its construction by William J. Innis, a machinist from New England. Innis revamped it by 1877 and added an observatory. After his death in 1894, it was remodeled from its Second Empire style to the present Queen Anne appearance. The frame house has window caps, brackets, round- and
Lu Donnelly et al., "Innis Mansion", [Oil City, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-VE16.
Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 531-532.
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