James B. Carden House is a historic home located near Summersville,

Nicholas County, West Virginia Nicholas County is a county located in the central region of U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 24,604. Its county seat is Summersville. The county was created in 1818 by the Virginia General Assembly and ...

. It was built in 1885, and is a two-story, "T"-plan, frame,

Folk Victorian Folk Victorian is an architectural style employed for some homes in the United States and Europe between 1870 and 1910, though isolated examples continued to be built well into the 1930s. Folk Victorian homes are relatively plain in their construc ...

style house. It features a two-story front porch running the full width of the house. Also on the property are an end gable barn and a small workshop. It has been occupied since 1971, by a restaurant known as the Country Road Inn-Mama Jerrols. 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 v ...

in 2001.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Houses completed in 1885 Houses in Nicholas County, West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Nicholas County, West Virginia Victorian architecture in West Virginia Folk Victorian architecture in the United States Restaurants on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia {{NicholasCountyWV-NRHP-stub