James F. Murray House | |
Location: | 530 Louisiana Ave., Chester, West Virginia |
Coordinates: | 40.6117°N -80.5617°W |
Built: | 1903 |
Architect: | Snyder, J.A. |
Architecture: | Classical Revival, American Four Square |
Added: | July 12, 1990 |
Refnum: | 90001066 |
James F. Murray House, also known as Murray-Abrams House, is a historic home located at Chester, Hancock County, West Virginia. It was built 1904–1905, and is a blond brick, L-shaped dwelling in a combined Classical Revival / American Foursquare style. It featured a deep wraparound porch and porte cochere and slate covered intersecting hipped roofs. Also on the property is a large -story frame barn built in 1903. It was the home of James Fraser Murray, (1844-1925), an individual important in the Northern Panhandle's developing oil industry.[1] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.