Titusville, Pennsylvania

Nelson Kingsland owned timber land, cleared it, and sold the lumber in the early 1860s to the contractors building Titusville’s houses. The building was remodeled in Greek Revival fashion as the grand Bush Hotel in 1865. Likely added at the time were the large pediment supported by  full-height, fluted columns with prominent Ionic capitals dominates the Franklin Street facade.  The small window with the semicircular hood seen in the pediment is inconsistent with the rectilinear and angular nature of Greek Revival.  This structure has served as Titusville’s City Hall since 1872.