James Clark McGrew House

Historic house in West Virginia, United States

United States historic place


James Clark McGrew House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


39°28′20″N 79°41′11″W / 39.47222°N 79.68639°W / 39.47222; -79.68639
Area	2.8 acres (1.1 ha)
Architectural style	Italianate, Federal, Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	93000618^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 9, 1993

James Clark McGrew House, also known as the Gibson Property, is a historic home located at Kingwood, Preston County, West Virginia. The house consists of a large main two-story block and a low two-story ell. The oldest section is the northern ell, built in 1841. The main block was built about 1870. Also on the property are a contributing two-story barn/outbuilding connected to the house with a breezeway and a two-story Gothic Revival barn/carriage house. The house was built by James McGrew (1813 – 1910), a founding father of West Virginia.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Rosemary Bernatowicz (March 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: James Clark McGrew House" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-09-01.