Mountain Home, also known as Locust Hill and Robert Dickson House, is a historic home located near
White Sulphur Springs,
Greenbrier County, West Virginia
Greenbrier County () is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 32,977. Its county seat is Lewisburg. The county was formed in 1778 from Botetourt and Montgomery counties in Virginia.
History
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. It was built about 1833, and is a large, two-story brick dwelling with a kitchen ell. It features a two-story, one-bay
lunette
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A lunette may also be segmental, and the arch may be an arc take ...
-adorned pediment with plastered brick
Doric order
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paired columns. It has
Late Federal and
Roman Revival
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elements on both the exterior and interior.
It was built by "Greenbrier Valley master builder"
John W. Dunn and includes mantels and other woodwork done by master wood-carver
Conrad Burgess
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[ ]Morlunda (Greenbrier County, West Virginia)
Morlunda, also known as the Col. Samuel McClung Place and Oscar Nelson Farm, is a historic home located near Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was built in 1827–1828, and consists of a main house with ell. The main house is a t ...
is another of their joint works.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 1980, with a boundary increase in 2020.
References
Neoclassical architecture in West Virginia
Federal architecture in West Virginia
Houses completed in 1833
Houses in Greenbrier County, West Virginia
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Greenbrier County, West Virginia
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
John W. Dunn buildings
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