Henry Gassaway Davis House
Appearance
Henry Gassaway Davis Mansion | |
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Location | 15-17 Jones St. and 81 Second Street, Piedmont, West Virginia |
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Coordinates | 39°28′55″N 79°2′59″W / 39.48194°N 79.04972°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1871 |
Built by | E.J. Fredlock Manufacturing Co. |
Architectural style | Second Empire |
NRHP reference No. | 08001239[1] |
Added to NRHP | December 19, 2008 |
Henry Gassaway Davis House, also known as the Knights of Pythias Lafayette Lodge, No. 3, and Calanthe Temple, No. 8, Pythian Sisters, is a historic home located at Piedmont, Mineral County, West Virginia. It was built in 1871, for U.S. Senator and vice presidential nominee Henry G. Davis (1823–1916). It is a three-bay, four-story Second Empire style brick duplex. It has a simple mansard roof and 12 gabled pedimented dormer windows on the concave slopes. The front façade features dual stone-and-slate stairs, ascending to two centered paired six-by-nine-foot framed one-story entry porches.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ John T. Francis and Kelly Wilson (June 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Henry Gassaway Davis House" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
Categories:
- Houses in Mineral County, West Virginia
- Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
- Davis and Elkins family
- Houses completed in 1871
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
- Clubhouses in West Virginia
- Knights of Pythias buildings
- National Register of Historic Places in Mineral County, West Virginia
- Second Empire architecture in West Virginia
- Piedmont, West Virginia
- Potomac Highlands Registered Historic Place stubs