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Adam Stephen House

Adam Stephen House

Historic house in West Virginia, United States

Adam Stephen House is a historic home located at Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built between 1772 and 1789, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, stone house measuring 43 feet, 5 inches, by 36 feet, 3 inches. It was the home of Adam Stephen (c. 1718 – July 16, 1791).[2] Built of shaped limestone, it stands on a prominent stone ledge, with two outbuildings in stone and log. After falling into near-ruin, iIt was restored in the 1960s by the General Adam Stephen Memorial Association and is open as a historic house museum.[3] The house was built over a natural cave, with stone steps leading down from the basement. A local caver's organization has worked since 2002 to excavate the cave, which had become plugged with earth, and the excavation is available for tours on open house days.[4]

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The site also includes the Triple Brick House, a brick two-story building built into the embankment next to the railroad tracks that run close to the site. It was built about 1875, and was primarily for residential use, but may also have been a kitchen for dining cars on the B&O railroad line.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is located within the South Water Street Historic District, listed in 1980.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. [2]
    Clifford M. Lewis (July 1970). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Adam Stephen House" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-06-02.
  3. [3]
    Chambers, S. Allen Jr. (2004). Buildings of West Virginia. Oxford University Press. pp. 525–526. ISBN 0-19-516548-9.
  4. [4]
    Mozier, Jeanne (December 2014). "The General Adam Stephen House" (PDF). Wonderful West Virginia. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
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