Ashcombe, built in 1891 near Mechanicsburg, served as summer home for the wife of legislator and railroad exec Henry Moser. Its exterior of limestone, sandstone and wood frame iscovered by shingles, stucco and half-timbering. Ashcombe is near the market complex that resembles Brown's Orchards Farm Market in Loganville. It was featured in the October edition of Spaces, published by the York Daily Record/Sunday News. Background posts: The real big York County house that little false teeth built, 'You cannot stay stressed here for long', All Dempwolf posts.
The venerable Dempwolf architectural firm was everywhere in York city 100-125 years ago.
They firm even were associated with Spring Grove and Hanover, having designed the high schools in those towns.
But their buildings were found outside county borders in large numbers. As I wrote in "Never to be Forgotten," the Dempwolf firm was synonymous with architecture in southcentral Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland during the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
Cumberland County's Ashcombe Mansion is one such example.
An article in the October issue of Spaces magazine tells a bit about this area landmark:
