619 West Chestnut Street Lancaster, PA
C. Emlen Urban, Lancaster’s most important architect, lived in this townhouse in the 1920s. He lived here with wife Jennie (McMichael) Urban from 1923 to 1927. They then moved to a new house Emlen Urban designed at 1008 Buchanan Ave.
This Chestnut Street double house was built in 1906 for insurance executive Charles F. Widmyer. He and his family lived in the adjoining unit with the two-story Neoclassical columns. The builder was Ambrose B. Moore, who built numerous homes here in Lancaster.
This house features a mansard roof with stepped gables, a polygonal bay window, pedimented dormers, modillioned cornices, and a porch supported by clustered columns.