Dr. Robert B. McNutt House is a historic home located at

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, Mercer County, West Virginia. The original section was built about 1840, and is a classic

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configuration, with a two-story, three-bay main facade and a one-bay-wide, two-story centered

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cult ...

. Later additions include a one-story, hip-roofed section and a two-story ell. The portico has curvilinear brackets and a second story railing in the

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style. The house sits on a random

ashlar Ashlar () is finely dressed (cut, worked) stone, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared, or a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, generally rectangular cuboid, mentioned by Vitruv ...

sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...

foundation. Also on the property is a contributing stone storage building / well house. The house was used as a headquarters and field hospital by the Union Army in the spring of 1862. It was listed on the

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in 2001.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Gothic Revival architecture in West Virginia Houses completed in 1840 Houses in Mercer County, West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Mercer County, West Virginia 1840 establishments in Virginia Princeton, West Virginia {{MercerCountyWV-NRHP-stub