Mountain Home (White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia) Explained

Mountain Home
Location:Southwest of White Sulphur Springs on U.S. Route 60, near White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
Coordinates:37.7733°N -80.3528°W
Built:c. 1833
Builder:Dunn, John W.
Burgess, Conrad
Architecture:Federal, Roman Revival
Added:November 28, 1980
Refnum:80004020
Increase:December 23, 2020
Increase Refnum:100005944

Mountain Home, also known as Locust Hill and Robert Dickson House, is a historic home located near White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was built about 1833, and is a large, two-story brick dwelling with a kitchen ell. It features a two-story, one-bay lunette-adorned pediment with plastered brick Doric order paired columns. It has Late Federal and Roman Revival elements on both the exterior and interior.[1]

It was built by "Greenbrier Valley master builder" John W. Dunn and includes mantels and other woodwork done by master wood-carver Conrad Burgess.[1] Morlunda (Greenbrier County, West Virginia) is another of their joint works.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, with a boundary increase in 2020.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Mountain Home. July 1980. 2011-08-03 . Rodney S. Collins and C.E. Turley. State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation.