229 North Mary Street Lancaster, PA
In the early 1900s this was the home of Martin M. Sensenig, a salesman / grocer, and wife Martha (Hess) Sensenig.
Also living here with them was Mrs. Sensenig’s widowed Mennonite mother Mrs. Catharine (Shank) Hess. She previously lived with her husband John Hess at Hess Station on the Quarryville Road. She was a member of the Old Mennonite Church of New Providence.
Martin Sensenig also came from a Mennonite family. While living here in Lancaster he and Martha joined the nearby Lancaster Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. The Sensenigs’ daughters, Laura and Lillian, also lived in this home with their parents.
The house was built ca. 1900 in a Queen Anne style. It has a shingled dormer, corbelled brick cornice, corbelled pendants, and segmental arches. The porch has a dentilled cornice and fluted columns.