Mountain Home (White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia)

Mountain Home
Location Southwest of White Sulphur Springs on U.S. Route 60, near White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
Coordinates 37°46′24″N 80°21′10″W / 37.77333°N 80.35278°W / 37.77333; -80.35278Coordinates: 37°46′24″N 80°21′10″W / 37.77333°N 80.35278°W / 37.77333; -80.35278
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built c. 1833
Built by Dunn, John W.; Burgess, Conrad
Architectural style Federal, Roman Revival
NRHP Reference # 80004020[1]
Added to NRHP November 28, 1980

Mountain Home, also known as Locust Hill and Robert Dickson House, is a historic home located near White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was built about 1833, and is a large, two-story brick dwelling with a kitchen ell. It features a two-story, one-bay lunette-adorned pediment with plastered brick Doric order paired columns. It has Late Federal and Roman Revival elements on both the exterior and interior.[2]

It was built by "Greeenbrier Valley master builder" John W. Dunn and includes mantels and other woodwork done by master wood-carver Conrad Burgess.[2] Morlunda (Greenbrier County, West Virginia) is another of their joint works.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 Rodney S. Collins and C.E. Turley (July 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Mountain Home" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-03.


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