Home Remodeling in Lincoln University, PA
Kitchen, bath, addition and exterior work for the homes around Lincoln University, in Lower Oxford and the townships beside it.
Before there was a university there was Hinsonville, a settlement of free Black farmers who owned their own land, named for its first permanent resident, Emory Hinson, a free man born in Maryland. Its people organized the Hosanna Meeting House in 1843 and finished it by 1845, and in 1854 John Miller Dickey and Sarah Emlen Cresson founded the Ashmun Institute there, renamed Lincoln University in 1866. The campus grew until it took in the village. The brick meeting house is the only building of Hinsonville left, listed on the National Register in 2024, two years after the campus. Today the campus covers 422 acres in the eastern part of Lower Oxford Township, a township of 5,420 people in 2020 with nine named villages and 84 farms, 74 of them Amish-owned.
The Lincoln University mailing address reaches well past the campus, into New London, Upper Oxford, Franklin, Penn, Elk and East Nottingham townships as well as Lower Oxford. Most of the houses on those roads are freestanding singles built between 1970 and 1999, many with four or more bedrooms, and some from 2000 on. Dawson's serves the whole address from Middletown, about forty-five minutes away.
Lower Oxford Township's permit list
Around the campus, permits come from Lower Oxford Township, whose code enforcement officer administers the building code and has no power to approve work that does not meet it. The township keeps separate residential applications for a new house, an addition (a porch with a roof counts), alterations and renovations, a deck, an accessory building, a pool and solar panels, plus a single-event permit for electrical, mechanical, window or door work. One useful detail: a window or door replacement needs a permit only if the header size changes. Setting a mobile home takes its own permit, and a farm building needs a lot of at least ten acres. The other townships under this mailing address each keep their own office, so the parcel's township, not the envelope, decides where an application goes.
Houses from the 1970s to the 1990s
A house from those decades on a country lot often has a well and a septic system, a kitchen walled off from the family room, a hall bath with a fiberglass tub, and a basement or crawl space that was never finished. The common projects follow from that: a kitchen opened up and rebuilt with an island, bathrooms redone around tiled showers, a basement turned into living space where it stays dry, and an addition or a sunroom where the lot and the septic field allow. Siding, windows and decks on houses this age are due, and the open ground around most of them leaves room for a larger deck or a screened porch. Where an older farmhouse comes into the mix, the pace slows: rooms are measured twice, old framing is opened carefully, and the addition is scaled so the original house still reads first.
Dawson's serves Lincoln University for kitchens, bathrooms, basements, additions, windows, siding, decks and carpentry.
Nearby, Dawson's also serves Oxford, New London, West Grove and Kemblesville.
Lincoln University is part of the Chester County, PA service area.
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