555 West James Street Lancaster, PA
This Tudor Revival arcade at Lancaster Theological Seminary was constructed 1916 – 17.
The seminary’s extraordinary Tudor Revival refectory, dormitory, and arcades are my favorite example of this style in Lancaster City. And the seminary’s 1893 Lark Academic Building is my favorite Romanesque Revival building in the city.
The Tudor Revival architects were Dillon, McLelland and Beadel of New York. The builder was Herman L. Wiant of Lancaster.
The arches are trimmed in Indiana limestone. A limestone bas-relief above the central arch depicts the medieval image of a pelican sacrificing herself for her chicks by plucking her breast to feed them her blood.