624 West Chestnut Street Lancaster, PA
This is another terrific Chateauesque-style home built by Lancaster’s favorite architect: C. Emlen Urban. He designed it ca. 1894 for the family of Menno Martin Fry, a wealthy tobacco leaf dealer.
A Flemish-style stepped gable is balanced by a dormer with a scrolled broken pediment. The wrap-around porch features railing with turned spindles and columns on stone piers.
The house is next door to an equally dramatic Chateauesque home which Emlen Urban designed during this same time for the Elmer Steigerwalt family.