Newtown Historic District

208 Fayette St

A school, Ca. 1860

BrickContributes to the historic character of the district

1860
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From the National Register nomination

Brick; 2 stories, raised basement; hip roof with central gable; 3 bays; 1-story porch across front with bracketed cornice, square columns and turned balusters. Italianate characteristics. Entrance with transom in central bay. Palladian window on 2nd floor above entrance, Bracketed cornice, Tall corbelled chimneys. Part of a late 19th C, girls' school, The Staunton Female Seminary (also called Lutheran Female Institute), this was attached to #212-214 to the south, When the school was dissolved in the late 1890's, the houses were separated and #212 appears to have been rebuilt.

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