Here are some of the 2010 Houses

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The Victorian House at Penn College
One College Ave
Williamsport, PA

The Victorian House on the campus of the Pennsylvania College of Technology was designed and constructed by students, faculty and staff, with support from the business community, to serve as a modern guest house with Victorian charm.   Since 1996, special guests of the college have enjoyed present-day conveniences in a gracious environment, decorated in traditional Victorian style.

Owners:  Pennsylvania College of Technology
Florist/Decorators:  Chris Fink and horticulture students/Lenore Penfield
Campus House Chairs:  Linda Miller/Gail Landers

1105 Woodmont Avenue

The John Stopper House

Formerly the Florence Crittendon Home

This spectacular 1905 house shows architectural features transitioning from Victorian to Craftsman.  This home features tiger oak wood work in the foyer, stair case and original dining room. Other highlights include a “vintage” baby grand piano, an antique upright piano, a Thomas Edison Standard Cylinder Phonograph and a nativity set from Israel.
Owners: Verne and Angelia Wepener
Florist: Janet’s Floral Creations
Chair:  Ruthanne Crotty and Nan Young

835 W 4th Street

The White –Gamble Home - France

This house features Richardson – Romanesque style of architecture. Circa 1888. The house was a wedding gift to John Whites daughter Mary White Gamble who was marrying William Emery. The house has 30 rooms featuring beautiful oak woodwork and stained glass.  Once the Army had owned it and must have had inside target practice for 1,000 lbs of plaster had fallen on the first floor.

Owner: The McCormick Law Firm
Florist: Karen Ruhl, Michelle Ronnelberg
Chair:  Joan Cherrington

830 Vallamont Drive

The Lamade-Reynolds house

You will feel welcome in this magnificent traditional home circa 1942. Gracious center Hall style with handsome curving staircase to second floor. Wood Paneled den.

Owners: Joseph Reynolds and Barbara Brown
Chair: Dina Wilson

707 West Fourth Street
Preservation Williamsport, owner
Rowley House Museum
Williamsport, PA

Probably the most magnificent remaining example of the craftsmanship which exemplified Millionaire's Row, this 1888 home was designed by Eber Culver and built on land purchased by Peter Herdic. It is recognized as one of the most outstanding examples of Queen Anne architecture in the state and features extraordinary Tiffany quality stained glass windows which were featured in Victorian Homes Magazine.  The cherry and oak woodwork is in excellent condition, and the electric light fixtures are extremely rare.  On the second floor is a multimedia room formerly used as a chapel by the sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, who taught at St. Joseph's School across the street at Annunciation parish. It was opened to the public as a Victorian House Museum summer 2007.

Decorated by

Chair: Bob Kane

1400 West 4th St.

The Sanctuary

The Sanctuary, formerly known as Calgary Church, was constructed in 1925. It is now a set of apartments.

Later known as Calvary United Methodist Church, it was the site of the first cemetery established specifically to be a cemetery.

It was the site of the Plum Thicket Massacre of June 10, 1778.
This terrible massacre occurred at the point where West Fourth Street, Williams-port, crosses the little stream which flows down Cemetery street. At that time a natural thicket of wild plum trees grew there, which yielded fruit of remarkable size and flavor for nearly a century after the tragedy. The road, was merely a widening out of the old Indian trail, and was out through this thicket. The boughs,. with the leaves dried on them, were thrown into the bushes, forming a safe place for the concealment of the savages.

Victims of that massacre were interred in the cemetery there for a period of time.
Owner: Hutchinson Realty Development
Chair: Karen Campbell and Natalie Pena

807 West Fourth Street
Covenant Central Presbyterian Church
Williamsport, PA

Covenant Central Church was completed in 1910; built in the Romanesque style using gray Avondale marble with a red tile roof. Of historical interest is the "Christ Window," the "English Bible Window" and the "Missionary Window," which were crafted by Frederick S. Lamb, in the studio of J. & R. Lamb of New York, member of the American School of Stained Glass Art. "In its external appearance the structure gives the impression of solidity, cheerful openness, and much dignified beauty in line and color. This, together with its site -- one of the most commanding in the city -- makes an architectural combination which is eloquent of the leading ideals of modern church life."

Organ music will be performed throughout the day and light refreshments will be served.

380 West Fourth Street
First Baptist Church
Williamsport, PA

This landmark church was originally designed and built by Eber Culver in 1854.  It has been served by 21 pastors and six interim pastors in three different buildings all on the same corner of ground donated by Peter Herdic.  Peter's wife was a member of the congregation.  After being destroyed by floods, the original building was torn down in 1889.  The main sanctuary was completed in 1914.  The church is an example of the Romanesque style of architecture, with mountain stone quarried from this area.  The present church is known for its beautiful sanctuary with the eight stained glass windows depicting Baptist patriarchs. The jewel of all the windows faces West Fourth Street and depicts the baptism of Jesus. Designed in London and built in New York City by Young and Bonawitz in 1914, the windows were taken apart to be transported to Williamsport.

A 2 p.m. organ concert is planned

436 West Fourth Street
Christ Community Worship Center
Williamsport, PA

Originally Church of the Covenant and more recently St. Paul's Lutheran Church, this limestone structure has a center spire, bell tower, and steeply pitched roof with stone finials.  The windows are pointed and arched.  It has the largest expanse of Tiffany stained glass in Northcentral Pennsylvania.  Note the arched entryway with decorative insets.

700 West Fourth Street
Annunciation Church
Williamsport, PA

Built in 1886 by Amos Wagner on land donated by Peter Herdic, the church was built to service the Irish Catholic community.  It is an example of the Romanesque style of architecture, and the sandstone came from the nearby Ralston Quarry.  The church has a multi-gabled slate roof and walls with colored belt courses.  There are 43 arched stained glass windows.  The entryway and entry doors are semi-circular.  The bell tower is open with a decorative cornice and patterned stone.  The center tower was capped when three workers fell to their deaths during construction.  The interior has marble altars and Tiffany windows, including "The Accession of Christ" behind the main altar installed in the early 1900s.  Note the use of marble and gold. The church seats 1,000 people.

Organ music will be provided as you tour.

844 West Fourth Street
Trinity Episcopal Church
Williamsport, PA

Built in 1875 by Culver and Thorn, the church was paid for by Peter Herdic, who donated not only the land but also the entire building to Trinity Parish for one dollar as long as the pews remain "forever free."  His father-in-law, Judge Maynard, presented the church with the first set of nine-bell Westminster chimes in America, the same as heard in the Big Ben Tower of London.  An example of English Gothic architecture, the church is built with stone quarried from Bald Eagle Mountain at Muncy and brownstone from Hummelstown.  Note the pointed arches and windows, steeply pitched colored slate roof, and 265-foot spire. In an 1876 issue of the Parish Dial, the following passage appears concerning the church's windows: "Words cannot paint the loveliness of these windows. The makers, Aickin and Isaac, Philadelphia, have conscientiously adhered to the true idea of glass staining, which does not consist in painting the various colors upon large sheets of glass, but in leading together separate pieces so as to present a transparent mosaic. The side windows show exquisite geometrical designs.