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 LeFevre House
The
LeFevre House was built by merchant and businessman Ezekiel
Elting in a style new to Huguenot Street. Whereas the
18th-century stone houses of Huguenot Street reflect traditional
folk styles, the Elting home and store reflect the more
up-to-date early Georgian (or Anglo-Dutch) style with
its ordered symmetry. The house and its interiors are
suggestive of the development of a more cosmopolitan and
consumer-driven society in the early years of the United
States, which resulted in the creation of a national character
as opposed to the regionalism of the colonial period.
Purchased by the LeFevre Family Association and donated
to the Society in 1968.
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