Built 1853 Opened 1853 | NRHP Reference # 96001569 Area 97 ha Added to NRHP 9 January 1997 | |
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Location Patterson Creek Rd., approximately 1.5 mi (2.4 km) south of junction with U.S. Routes 50/220, near Burlington, West Virginia | ||
Fort Hill, also known as Fort Hill Farm, is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Burlington, Mineral County, West Virginia. The district includes 15 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures. The main house was completed in 1853, and is a two-story, "L"-shaped brick dwelling composed of a side gable roofed, five bay building with a rear extension in the Federal style. It features a three-bay, one-story front porch supported by four one foot square Tuscan order columns. Also on the property are a number of contributing buildings including a washhouse and cellar, outhouse, a dairy and ice house, a meat house, a garage, a hog house, poultry houses, a bank barn with silo, and a well. The family cemetery is across the road west of the main house. Located nearby and in the district is "Woodside," a schoolhouse built about 1890, and a tenant house and summer kitchen.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.