541 State Street Lancaster, PA
Building contractor James Smithgall constructed this home in 1928 for John H. Swanger Sr. and wife Agnes (Fackler) Swanger. Mr. Swanger owned a road construction company. He paved major highways throughout Pennsylvania, including repaving a nine-mile stretch of the Lincoln Highway between Lancaster and Gap in 1929.
This house was designed in a Tudor Revival style. In the 1920s and 30s Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival were popular choices for home building here in this almost-suburban west side of Lancaster City.
Builder James Smithgall also designed and constructed homes in the nearby School Lane Hills neighborhood, and elsewhere in Lancaster.