Spanish Eclectic
Stucco walls, red tile roofs, arched openings: details unusual in York and unmistakable when you find them.
Low-pitched roofs with red clay tile; stucco walls; arched doorways and windows; wrought-iron details; sometimes a small tower. The style was national in the 1920s and rare in Pennsylvania, which makes the Springdale examples a small surprise. The best example here is 124 East Springettsbury Avenue, the John C. Himes House of 1923 — one storey, stucco, curved red tile, a semicircular portico on four Tuscan columns with an iron balcony above it — built as a wedding present for the owner of a Nash dealership on South George Street. Harry E. Yessler, who designed it with his son Russell, is also documented as having built a Spanish Eclectic house for himself in the neighborhood.