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William Everhart Buildings

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Built
  
c. 1833

Area
  
400 m²

Added to NRHP
  
17 July 1979

NRHP Reference #
  
79002206

Architectural style
  
Federal architecture

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Location
  
28 W. Market St., West Chester, Pennsylvania

Similar
  
West Chester Boarding, Farmers and Mechanic, Bank of Chester County, First Presbyterian Church of, Brandywine Battlefield

William Everhart Buildings, also known as the Everhart-Lincoln Building, is a historic commercial building located in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built by Congressman William Everhart (1785-1868) about 1833, and is a three-story, three bay, rectangular brick building in the Federal style. It measures 40 feet long and between 20 and 25 feet wide. The front facade features a hipped roof second story wrought iron porch added in 1868. The building housed a number of printing concerns, most notably newspapers. It was the printing house where Abraham Lincoln's first biography was published on February 11, 1860, as an article in the Chester County Times.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The William Everhart House was listed in 1984.

References

William Everhart Buildings Wikipedia