Ripon Lodge, located near the village of

Rippon, West Virginia Rippon is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States, located south of Charles Town and designated as a village by the Jefferson County Commission. The village of Rippon developed in the mid-19th century at th ...

, was built in 1833 by Henry S. Turner on his "Wheatland" estate. The next year his son, William F. Turner, inherited Ripon Lodge. The house is a two-story T-shaped stone building with a detached -story stone

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. The interior contains an elegant half-spiral curving stairway to the second floor. The Lodge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

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