Elmhurst, also known as the William H. Tarr House or William and Carol Lynn Residence, is a historic country home located at Wellsburg,

Brooke County, West Virginia Brooke County is a county in the Northern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,559. Its county seat is Wellsburg. The county was created in 1797 from part of Ohio County and named in hon ...

. It was built in 1848, and is a two-story, five-bay, rectangular brick dwelling with a hipped roof in the

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but a ...

style. It sits on a stone ashlar foundation and features a single bay portico with a hipped roof supported by

Tuscan order The Tuscan order (Latin ''Ordo Tuscanicus'' or ''Ordo Tuscanus'', with the meaning of Etruscan order) is one of the two classical orders developed by the Romans, the other being the composite order. It is influenced by the Doric order, but with ...

columns. Also on the property is a contributing small barn. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1986.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Greek Revival houses in West Virginia Houses completed in 1848 Houses in Brooke County, West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Brooke County, West Virginia {{BrookeCountyWV-NRHP-stub