525 - 527 State Street Lancaster, PA
This Colonial Revival double house was constructed in 1928 by builder / developer James Smithgall. Mr. Smithgall was also a carpentry instructor at the school now named the Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology. He built numerous homes in this neighborhood and in School Lane Hills.
This house is on the western edge of the city. Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival homes were the height of fashion here during that era. Mr. Smithgall sold this house 525 to Dr. I Morris of Philadelphia. He sold number 527 to Robert B. Marrow, of the Marrow Ice Cream Company.