William Everhart Buildings

William Everhart Buildings
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
William Everhart Buildings, January 2010
Location	28 W. Market St., West Chester, Pennsylvania
Coordinates
Area	0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built	c. 1833
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP Reference #	79002206
Added to NRHP	July 17, 1979

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.

External links

• William Everhart Building, 28 West Market Street, West Chester, Chester County, PA: 3 photos, 4 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Buildings Survey