168 East King Street Lancaster, PA
Lancaster’s favorite architect, C. Emlen Urban, was very young, in his early 20s, when he designed this relatively modest townhouse, ca. 1885.
At that time this was the home of George A. and Katie Elizabeth Kiehl. They both had immigrated here from Darmstadt, Germany. Mr. Kiehl was a bottler of mineral water and beer. The 1886 Sanborn map indicated a soda-water factory at the rear of this property.
The building has a corbelled-brick cornice above rows of terra-cotta ornaments. There are round arches above the third-floor windows and decorative segmental arches above the other windows.
Thanks to Deb Oesch for identifying this building’s architect. 168 East King Street Lancaster, Pennsylvania