Isaac Pawling House is a historic home located in
East Fallowfield Township,
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 built about 1900, and is a two-story, seven-bay frame dwelling with a
slate
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-covered hipped roof in the
Queen Anne style. It features a large, steep, conical
turret
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* Turret (architecture), a small tower that projects above the wall of a building
* Gun turret, a mechanism of a projectile-firing weapon
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, two-story bay window, and two-story hipped roof
portico
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porch. Its builder also built the
Harry DeHaven House across the street.
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It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1985.
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Queen Anne architecture in Pennsylvania
Houses completed in 1900
Houses in Chester County, Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places in Chester County, Pennsylvania
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