28 South Lime Street Lancaster, PA
This was the residence of Lancaster architect Clifton Evans in the late 1800s. He lived here with wife Annie (Weaver) Evans and their children.
This architect’s works include Lancaster’s First Methodist Church and the Moose Lodge, plus the Mentzer Building in Ephrata and the Hotel Cocalico there. His father, John H. Evans, also was an architect, and has often been named Lancaster’s first architect. Clifton Evan’s son, Melvern R. Evans Sr., was the third generation of Evans architects.
The house is in a Queen Anne style. It has a gable-end façade, a conical-roofed turret, a recessed porch with pilasters and dentilled entablature, and a modillioned cornice.