The John VanMetre House is a log and brick

Federal-style Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was heavily based on the works of Andrea Palladio with several inn ...

house built in

Kearneysville Kearneysville is an unincorporated community in Jefferson and Berkeley Counties, in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle in the lower Shenandoah Valley The Shenandoah Valley () is a geographic valley and cultural region of ...

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around 1780, and enlarged with a log ell about 1800. Also on the property is a log

smoke house A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more.

, timber frame barn, and two sheds. It was listed on the

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in 2004.

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