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Buffalo Town Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Buffalo, Putnam County, West Virginia. It encompasses three contributing buildings all in the Greek Revival on the town square: the Buffalo Academy (1849), Buffalo Presbyterian Church (1857), and Buffalo Methodist Church (1870). [ 2 ]
Francis Cartwright, a master builder and architect, who was established as a "competent provincial designer in the Palladian manner", [11] worked on Stourhead between 1749 and 1755. Cartwright was a known carver, presumably of materials such as wood and stone, and it is assumed that his contribution to Stourhead was in this capacity.
Buffalo is a town in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States, located along the Kanawha River. The population was 1,211 at the time of the 2020 census [ 2 ] [ 5 ] It is part of the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area .
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, West Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the ...
The Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery is a 2,200-square-foot gallery on the first floor of the Visual Arts Center. The gallery was renamed in 2015 after Charles and Norma Carrol, two graduates from Marshall University and owners of Carroll Insurance. [13]
Rotunda at Stowe Gardens (1730–1738) The paintings of Claude Lorrain inspired Stourhead and other English landscape gardens.. The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (French: Jardin à l'anglaise, Italian: Giardino all'inglese, German: Englischer Landschaftsgarten, Portuguese: Jardim inglês, Spanish: Jardín inglés), is a style of ...
The Buffalo Indian Village Site is an archaeological site located near Buffalo, Putnam County, West Virginia, along the Kanawha River in the United States. This site sits atop a high terrace on the eastern bank of the Kanawha River and was once home to a variety of Native American villages including the Archaic, Middle Woodland and Fort Ancient cultures of this region.
Palladian revival: Stourhead House, south facade, designed by Campbell and completed in 1720; a print from Vitruvius Britannicus Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer who played an important part in the development of the Georgian style.