Lucy Tarr Mansion

Historic house in West Virginia, United States

United States historic place


Lucy Tarr Mansion
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Lucy Tarr Mansion, April 2011
40°16′40″N 80°36′24″W / 40.27778°N 80.60667°W / 40.27778; -80.60667
Area	less than one acre
Built	1885
Architect	Tarr, Ellen Hunter
Architectural style	Queen Anne
MPS	Pleasant Avenue MRA
NRHP reference No.	86001076 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 16, 1986

Lucy Tarr Mansion, also known as "Highland Place" and Nellie Little House, is a historic home located at Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia. It was built in 1885, and is a 2+1⁄2-story brick dwelling with highly pitched roofs and richly appointed porches in the Queen Anne style. It features a three-story tower with a pyramidal roof covered in fishscale slate. It also has a one-story, ell shaped verandah with turned columns. Also on the property is a contributing barn / garage.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.^[1]

Gallery

Lucy Tarr Mansion from the northwest, April 2011
Lucy Tarr Mansion from the southwest, April 2011

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Hiram J. Lester (September 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Lucy Tarr Mansion" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-07-23.