The Phillip Taylor House, also known as the Pennsylvania Memorial Home, is an historic, American home that is located in Brookville,

Jefferson County, Pennsylvania Jefferson County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,492. Its county seat is Brookville. The county was established on March 26, 1804, from part of Lycoming County and later organized ...

. 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 1982.

History and architectural features

Built circa 1841, this historic structure is a two-story, brick dwelling with a rear two-story addition and flanking wood-frame ell that was designed 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. The main building has a hipped roof and belvedere. The front facade is five-bays wide and features an elaborately ornamented open porch. It was acquired for use as a soldier's convalescent home in 1889, and was used for that purpose into the 1970s. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the

in 1982.

References

{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Italianate architecture in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1841 Houses in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania