210 West Walnut Street Lancaster, PA
This 12-feet-wide rowhouse was home to cigarmaker William J. Dreppard and wife Sarah (McConnell) Dreppard for many years in the late 1800s.
Mr. Dreppard worked for Henry C. Demuth, the grandfather of Lancaster’s most renowned artist, Charles Demuth. The Demuth Tobacco Shop building survives today, next door to the former home of Charles Demuth. That home is now the Demuth Museum.
Mrs. Dreppard had a green thumb. In 1885 she reported to a Lancaster newspaper about the gigantic blossoms of her night-blooming cereus. She reported that “another flower will open tonight and all persons who desire can see it.”
Mrs. Dreppard eventually lived here as a widow for 15 years, after her husband passed away in 1902.