222 Lancaster Avenue Lancaster, PA
This townhouse was built ca. 1893 as the retirement home of grocery-store owner George Wiant and wife Elizabeth (Kraut) Wiant. They previously lived at their grocery store at 113 W. King St.
Their son Herman L. Wiant later lived here with wife Lillian (Palmer) Wiant. Mr. Wiant was a builder. In 1917 he built the magnificent Tudor Revival refectory (restaurant today) and dormitory at the Lancaster Theological Seminary. The architects of those seminary buildings were Dillon, McLellan, and Beadel of New York.
This townhouse features a polygonal bay and a porch with Ionic columns on brick piers. The porch entablature repeats the dentilled design of the roof cornice. 222 Lancaster Avenue Lancaster, PA.