J. N. B. Crim House is a historic home located at Elk City,

Barbour County, West Virginia Barbour County is a county in North-Central West Virginia West Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 15,465. The county seat is Philippi, which was chartered in 1844. Both county and city were named for Philip P. Ba ...

. It was built in 1874–1875, and is a two-story, L-shaped,

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style brick house. It features an entrance

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with a flat roof supported by eight

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columns. Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte Crim (1835–1905), for whom it was built, was a prominent local merchant and banker. The house was listed on the

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in 1984.

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Houses completed in 1875 Houses in Barbour County, West Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Italianate architecture in West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Barbour County, West Virginia {{BarbourCountyWV-NRHP-stub

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