Mountain Home, also known as Locust Hill and Robert Dickson House, is a historic home located near White Sulphur Springs,

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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

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-adorned pediment with plastered brick

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paired columns. It has Late Federal and

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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

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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

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in 1980, with a boundary increase in 2020.

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