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Abram Huston House and Carriage House, also known as the Coatesville City Hall and Police Station and "Graystone Mansion," is a historic building located at Coatesville,
Chester County, Pennsylvania Chester County (Pennsylvania Dutch language, Pennsylvania Dutch: ''Tscheschter Kaundi''), colloquially known as Chesco, is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in the De ...
. It was designed and built in 1889, by the architectural firm of
Cope & Stewardson Cope and Stewardson (1885–1912) was a Philadelphia architecture firm founded by Walter Cope and John Stewardson, and best known for its Collegiate Gothic building and campus designs. Cope and Stewardson established the firm in 1885, and were jo ...
. The house is a -story building, built of shaped coursed stone, irregularly shaped in plan, and has a two-story wing added in 1925. The
carriage house A carriage house, also called a remise or coach house, is an outbuilding which was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and the related tack. In Great Britain the farm building was called a cart shed. These typically were open f ...
is L-shaped, and features a two-story tower with a conical roof. The house was built as the home of Abram Huston, president of the
Lukens Steel Company Lukens Steel Company, located in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, is the oldest steel mill in commission within the United States. In 1995, it was one of the three largest producers of plate steel and the largest domestic manufacturer of alloy-plate. ...
. The house was Coatesville City Hall and the carriage house was the Coatesville jail from 1939 to 1992. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1977.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Huston, Abram, House and Carriage House Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1889 Houses in Chester County, Pennsylvania Coatesville, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Chester County, Pennsylvania Historic district contributing properties in Pennsylvania