Charles McCafferty House
Charles McCafferty House
Charles McCafferty built this home in 1883 for his personal use and lived here until 1887. Mr. McCafferty was Bellefonte's premier builder during the last half of the nineteenth century and built most of the homes on Linn and Curtin streets which are part of Historic Bellefonte.
Other buildings he erected in Bellefonte during this period were the Brockerhoff Hotel on the diamond in downtown Bellefonte, Governor Curtin's home just west of the hotel on High Street, and in 1867 he built the grand stone jail behind the courthouse that served the county until it was destroyed by fire in 1959.
Mr. McCafferty's first wife was the daughter of James Williams and was a descendant of James Harris and Ann Dunlop (The founders of Bellefonte). The Harris family still owned the undeveloped Curtin and Linn portion of Bellefonte and Mr. McCafferty was charged with its development.
Courtesy of Charles McCafferty House