National Register of Historic Places
Phillip Taylor House
Listed federally as Taylor, Phillip, House
Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
The record
- Listed
- July 22, 1982
- Type
- Building
- Address
- Euclid Ave., Brookville
- County
- Jefferson
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Period of significance
- 1825 to 1874
- Contributing resources
- 1 building
- Coordinates
- 41.15103, -79.08017
- Reference number
- 82003790
The story
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The Phillip Taylor House is an Italian Villa style house on Euclid Ave. in Brookville, Jefferson County, built about 1841.
Why it's listed
It was listed in the National Register in 1982 under criteria B and C, with local significance in architecture, industry and commerce from 1800 to 1899, taking in its construction about 1841.
Physical character
The walls are brick, with round-arched windows, an elaborate cornice and paired brackets. A mansarded section was removed in the 1970s.
Historical context
Phillip Taylor, the architect and builder, came to Brookville in 1841 and became a director of the Red Bank Navigation Co. in 1856. It sold for $30,000 in 1889 and became a soldiers' home.