"Fairview", also known as the Peerce Home Place, Peerce House, and Rural Retreat, is a historic home and national

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located near Burlington, Mineral County, West Virginia. The district includes seven contributing buildings and one contributing site. The main house was most likely built in the 1860s. It is a two-story, square brick dwelling with a rectangular wing in a transitional Federal-

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style. It has a hipped roof, capped by a

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and a one-story

portico A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cu ...

with painted wooden

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columns. Also on the property are a contributing log cabin (c. 1800) and a number of farm-related outbuildings. It was listed on the

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in 1992.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Historic districts in Mineral County, West Virginia Federal architecture in West Virginia Greek Revival houses in West Virginia Houses completed in 1833 Houses in Mineral County, West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Mineral County, West Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia {{MineralCountyWV-NRHP-stub