617 West Chestnut St. Lancaster, PA
This remarkable Neoclassical townhouse was built in 1906 for insurance executive Charles F. Widmyer and wife Ruthanna (Taylor) Widmyer. Mr. Widmyer also was a director of the Fulton Bank and owned the Colonial Theater.
The builder was Ambrose B. Moore. He built numerous homes here in Lancaster. He moved into Lancaster from East Petersburg ca. 1896, and lived with wife Sarah Ellen (Zerphy) Moore at 543 West Lemon St.
The house features a two-story portico with fluted columns and a balcony, a gambrel-roofed cross gable, a polygonal bay window, and a mansard roof with stepped gables.