Lucy Tarr Mansion

Lucy Tarr Mansion
Lucy Tarr Mansion, April 2011
Location: 1456 Pleasant Ave., Wellsburg, West Virginia
Area: less than one acre
Built: 1885
Architect: Tarr, Ellen Hunter
Architectural style: Queen Anne
Governing body: Private
MPS: Pleasant Avenue MRA
NRHP Reference#:

86001076

[1]
Added to NRHP: May 16, 1986

Lucy Tarr Mansion, also known as "Highland Place" and Nellie Little House, is a historic home located at Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia. It was built in 1885, and is a 2 1/2 story brick dwelling with highly pitched roofs and richly appointed porches in the Queen Anne style. It features a three story tower with a pyramidal roof covered in fishscale slate. It also has a one story, ell shaped verandah with turned columns. Also on the property is a contributing barn / garage.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ Hiram J. Lester (September 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Lucy Tarr Mansion". State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/brooke/86001076.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-23.