936 Marietta Avenue Lancaster, PA
This Colonial Revival home was built ca. 1920 in the city’s green West End. During that era it was the home of Herbert P. Taylor and wife Mary (Gerhart) Taylor.
Mr. Taylor was a leaf tobacco dealer. He also was president of Lancaster’s Diffenbaugh Home for the Aged , organized by the Reformed Church. He was an elder with Lancaster’s First Reformed Church. Mrs. Taylor was a board member of the Bethany Children’s Home in Womelsdorf.
The house has a pedimented portico with Classical columns, pedimented dormers, and shutters in the local tradition: white panelled shutters on the first floor and darker-colored louvered shutters above