Opequon Golf Club

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Opequon Golf Club
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Location Golf Club Rd. E of Opequon Creek, Martinsburg, West Virginia
Coordinates 39°26′30″N77°55′19″W / 39.44167°N 77.92194°W / 39.44167; -77.92194 Coordinates: 39°26′30″N77°55′19″W / 39.44167°N 77.92194°W / 39.44167; -77.92194
Area less than one acre
Built 1922
Architect Harding, Clarence Lowell; et al.
Architectural style Bungalow/Craftsman, Adirondack Lodge Style
NRHP reference #

95000417

[1]
Added to NRHP April 28, 1995

Opequon Golf Club, also known as the Stonebridge Golf Club and Martinsburg Golf Club, is a historic country club clubhouse located at Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. The clubhouse was built in 1922, and is a one-story, Adirondack Lodge Style stone building with a wraparound porch on the north and west sides. It has a steep gable roof with a chimney at the west end. The porches have hip roofs and feature exposed rafter ends and stone columns. It sits on a raised basement. The building was added to on the east end in 1955. West Virginia Senator Charles James Faulkner (1847 - 1929) was a founding member and served as first president of the Opequon Golf Club. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. Michael Gioulis and Don C. Wood (June 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Opequon Golf Club" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-06-02.