Shumaker-Lewis House, also known as Virgil A. Lewis House, was a historic home located in
Mason, West Virginia
Mason, also known as Mason City, is a town in Mason County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 865 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Point Pleasant, WV– OH Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Mason was initially known as Waggen ...
. It was built about 1885, and was a two-story Victorian-era frame cottage. It featured a two tier
Eastlake movement
The Eastlake movement was a nineteenth-century architectural and household design reform movement started by British architect and writer Charles Eastlake (1836–1906). The movement is generally considered part of the late Victorian period in t ...
style porch. It was the home of
Virgil A. Lewis (1848-1912), the first State Historian and Archivist of West Virginia, 1905–1912. It was the headquarters of the Mason City Historical Society.
It was demolished in 2014 and the Virgil A. Lewis Park now occupies the site.
The house 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 ...
in 1979.
References
External links
e-WV, The Encyclopedia of West Virginia: Virgil A. Lewis
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
Houses completed in 1885
Houses in Mason County, West Virginia
Stick-Eastlake architecture in West Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Mason County, West Virginia
Victorian architecture in West Virginia
Buildings and structures demolished in 2014
Demolished buildings and structures in West Virginia
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