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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.
Later, their son, Henry Peregrine Rennie Hoare (1901–1981) reportedly "made a favourable impression at Stourhead" and wrote a book about the family's success in banking. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Arrangements were made with the National Trust for Henry Peregrine Rennie Hoare and his family to live rent-free at Stourhead following the deaths of Sir Henry ...
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 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 latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
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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. For most of his career, he ...
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.