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Henderson Hall Historic District

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Built
  
1836

Opened
  
1836

Architectural style
  
Italianate architecture

NRHP Reference #
  
86000811

Area
  
26 ha

Added to NRHP
  
17 April 1986

Henderson Hall Historic District

Location
  
CR 21/2 off WV 14, near Williamstown, West Virginia

Henderson Hall Historic District, is a historic home and national historic district located near Williamstown, Wood County, West Virginia. It encompasses 10 contributing buildings, 4 contributing structures, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing object. The primary building is "Henderson Hall," a three-story, Italianate mansion built between 1856 and 1859. Attached to the dwelling is a rear block, constructed in 1836. The remaining buildings are part of the associated farm complex. They include a log smokehouse (c. 1836), carriage barn and schoolroom (c. 1860), log corn crib (c. 1836), corncrib (c. 1856), scale house (c. 1856), cow barn (c. 1850), barn (c. 1895), tenant house (c. 1895-1900), "Woodhaven" (the Henry Clay Henderson House) (c. 1877), Henderson Cemetery, stone terrace wall, stne mounting block, and three prehistoric Indian mounds.

It was listed to the National Register of Historical Places in 1986.

References

Henderson Hall Historic District Wikipedia