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The Peter Herdic House is a historic home located at 407 West 4th Street between Elmira and Center Streets in the
Millionaire's Row Historic District The Millionaire's Row Historic District is a national historic district located at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The district includes 263 contributing buildings and one contributing site in a residential area of Williamsport. The buildings date ...
of
Williamsport, Pennsylvania Williamsport is a city in, and the county seat of, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. It recorded a population of 27,754 at the 2020 Census. It is the principal city of the Williamsport Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a popula ...
, United States. It was built in 1855–1856, and is a -story, brick building, coated in
stucco Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and a ...
in the
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. It features three bay windows on each floor and a distinctive
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 ...
atop the roof.
Peter Herdic Peter Herdic (1824–1888) was a lumber baron, entrepreneur, inventor, politician, and philanthropist in Victorian era Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. He was the youngest of seven children born to Henry and Eli ...
was a notable figure in the early development of Williamsport, and served as its fourth mayor, beginning in the fall of 1869. ''Note:'' This includes The house 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 1978. The Millionaire's Row Historic District was listed in 1985.


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


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* Buildings and structures in Williamsport, Pennsylvania Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Italianate architecture in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1856 Houses in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-NRHP-stub