Mountain Home (White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia)

Mountain Home
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Southwest of White Sulphur Springs on U.S. Route 60, near White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
Coordinates	37°46′24″N80°21′10″W / 37.77333°N 80.35278°W / 37.77333; -80.35278
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	c. 1833
Built by	Dunn, John W.; Burgess, Conrad
Architectural style	Federal, Roman Revival
NRHP reference No.	80004020 [1]  (original) 100005944  (increase)
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	November 28, 1980
Boundary increase	December 23, 2020

Mountain Home, also known as Locust Hill and Robert Dickson House, is a historic home located near White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. 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-adorned pediment with plastered brick Doric order paired columns. It has Late Federal and Roman Revival elements on both the exterior and interior. ^{[2] [3]}

It was built by "Greenbrier Valley master builder" John W. Dunn and includes mantels and other woodwork done by master wood-carver Conrad Burgess. ^[2] Morlunda (Greenbrier County, West Virginia) is another of their joint works.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, ^[1] with a boundary increase in 2020.

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Rodney S. Collins and C.E. Turley (July 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Mountain Home" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved August 3, 2011.
3. Rogers, Stephen T. (May 4, 2020). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Mountain Home (Additional Documentation and Boundary Increase)" (PDF). West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History. National Park Service. Retrieved October 1, 2024.