Samuel Starks House | |
Location: | 413 Shrewsbury St., Charleston, West Virginia |
Coordinates: | 38.3506°N -81.6306°W |
Built: | 1906 |
Architecture: | American Foursquare |
Added: | February 1, 1988 |
Refnum: | 87002526 |
Samuel Starks House is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia.
It is an American Foursquare style home built in 1908, as home for Samuel W. Starks (1866–1908). Starks was a nationally prominent African American leader in the Knights of Pythias fraternal organization.[1]
It was severely damaged by a fire in 1981 and subsequently repaired and renovated. The Samuel Starks House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.