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Connely-Holeman House

historic house in Pennsylvania, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ5161759 ↗
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Connely-Holeman House is a historic home located at Pleasantville, Venango County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1869 and 1871, and is a large three-story, square wood-frame building in the Second Empire style. It measures 50 feet by 50 feet and features two projecting bays, covered porches with Corinthian order columns, and a mansard roof with cast iron cresting. A rear addition was built in 1887.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

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The public source identifies “Connely-Holeman House” as historic house in Pennsylvania, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Connely-Holeman, House and historic.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1869, 1871, 1887, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Connely-Holeman, House and historic providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5161759. Authority coordinates are 41.595, -79.597. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1869, 1871, 1887 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Connely-Holeman House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.