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The Billmeyer House, also known as York House, is a historic home located at
York, Pennsylvania York ( Pennsylvania Dutch: ''Yarrick''), known as the White Rose City (after the symbol of the House of York), is the county seat of York County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in the south-central region of the state. The populati ...
,
York County, Pennsylvania York County ( Pennsylvania Dutch: Yarrick Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 456,438. Its county seat is York. The county was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster ...
. It was built in 1860, and is a three-story, brick
Italian Villa A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house built in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions. Typology and distribution Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) distinguished two kinds of villas ...
style dwelling. It consists of a "head house" with rear wing, and topped by flat roof with a 10 feet square
cupola In architecture, a cupola () is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome. The word derives, via Italian, from ...
. The interior features a parlor ceiling and walls decorated by noted artist
Filippo Costaggini 300px, Filippo Costaggini Filippo Costaggini (1839–April 15, 1904) was an artist from Rome, Italy, who worked in the United States Capitol. He and Constantino Brumidi both trained at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, and he came to the United ...
(1839–1904). ''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 1970.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in York County, Pennsylvania This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in York County, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in York County, Pennsylvania, U ...


References


External links


Historic York website
* {{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Historic American Buildings Survey in Pennsylvania Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Italianate architecture in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1860 Houses in York County, Pennsylvania Buildings and structures in York, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in York County, Pennsylvania