Darrah-Corbet House

The Darrah-Corbet House, one of Main Street's finest domestic buildings, is a Renaissance Revival residence with an exterior of rusticated wood blocks fashioned to simulate stone. It was built as the home of lumberman E.H. Darrah (1826-1890), who was active in timbering both here and in the West. After his death, the property passed to his daughter Mary and her husband Charles Corbet. Corbet (1851-1927) was a lawyer, District Attorney, and County Judge. Local master craftsmen altered the property for Corbet in the 1890s; in 1896 Andrew Braden added the handsome veranda, and one year later C.B. Hastings installed the distinctive rounded window to the left of the veranda. The Corbet family retained ownership into the 1970s.

Brookville, Pennsylvania · United States