This Second Empire home was built ca. 1876 for Charles and Massey Rhoads. Mr. Rhoads was a prosperous Lancaster jeweler. He was in the jewelry and art-dealing business with his brother Henry Zahm Rhoads, who lived next door in a high-style Beaux Arts home which survives today.
This house has ornate wood window caps, a bay window with bracketed cornice, and a mansard roof with two round–arched dormers.