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The James-Lorah House Popular
132 N. Main Street
Doylestown PA 18901
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WBF meetings and seminars are all held at this location.

Judge Henry Chapman, son of Abraham chapman and grandfather of the celebrated Henry Chapman Mercer, built this architecturally transitional house. The building reflects the persistence of the earlier Federal style (connecting double chimneys) in Doylestown as well as the more fashionable Greek Revival (third floor eyebrow windows) and Italianate (window hood moldings) styles of the mid 19th century.
In 1869 this property came into the James family, whose descendants bequeathed it to the Village Improvement Association in 1954.

This house ... "has been a center of public serice with its history of law, medicine, religion, music, and literature,"

Fred A. Martin, A.I.A., Doylestown architect and historian.

Visithttp://imls-train.cis.drexel.edu/bucks2/james-lorah_house.htm
 

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