National Register of Historic Places
Dr. Thomas R. Kerr House and Office
Listed federally as Kerr, Thomas R., Dr., House and Office
Oakmont, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
The record
- Listed
- September 2, 2003
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 438 Fourth St., Oakmont
- County
- Allegheny
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Period of significance
- 1875 to 1924
- Contributing resources
- 2 buildings
- Coordinates
- 40.51728, -79.84036
- Reference number
- 03000885
The story
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The Dr. Thomas R. Kerr House and Office is a Late Victorian Queen Anne building at 438 Fourth St. in Oakmont, Allegheny County, built in 1897 with an office building added in 1905 by architect and builder D.I. Kuhn.
Why it's listed
It was listed in the National Register in 2003 under criterion C, with local-level significance in architecture, reflecting its period of significance from 1897 to 1905.
Physical character
The house has brick walls on a sandstone foundation with a raised rusticated stone basement, sandstone lintels and sills, and an asphalt shingle roof. Its irregular footprint carries a hip roof with cross gables, a gambrel roof, a Palladian window, and a canted bay with cutaway corners and brackets. A wood-frame stable on the property was razed after 1958.
Historical context
Dr. Thomas R. Kerr commissioned the house in 1897 for his home and medical office; an office building was added in 1905, and the Kerr family owned it until 1994. His daughter, Mary Virginia Kerr, was born in 1903; Dr. Kerr died in 1931, and Mary Virginia died in 1994. The Dr. Thomas R. Kerr Memorial Museum opened in the building in 2002, and it served as a museum at the time of its 2003 listing.