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Vancroft

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Built
  
1901

Opened
  
1901

Added to NRHP
  
15 September 1986

NRHP Reference #
  
86002885

Area
  
24 ha

Vancroft

Location
  
Brinker Rd., near Wellsburg, West Virginia

Architectural style
  
Shingle style architecture

Vancroft


Vancroft, also known as Mt. St. George Historic District, is a historic home and national historic district located near Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia. It encompasses 10 contributing buildings, one contributing structure, and one contributing object associated with the manor house. The manor house was designed by Alden & Harlow in 1901, for steel magnate Joseph B. Vandergrift. It is a Shingle Style dwelling with broad gable roofs, a rough stone turret, and stone chimney. Also on the property are a pergola, a club house or retreat house, spring house, race track, grotto, farm manager's house, two farm laborer's residences, mill, barn, and "the Apple House." The property was purchased by the Catholic Knights of St. George and operated as a home for the aged. In 1998, it was purchased by the Catholic Knights of America.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

References

Vancroft Wikipedia