Edgewood Manor is located in Clarksburg, West Virginia

Clarksburg, West Virginia

Clarksburg is a city in and the county seat of Harrison County, West Virginia, United States, in the north-central region of the state. It is the principal city of the Clarksburg, WV Micropolitan Statistical Area...

 on the east side of US Route 19 and State Route 20 North just one-fourth of a mile off of the West Pike Street Exit off Route 50. The structure was commissioned by Haze Morgan as a residence, who named it Edgewood Manor because it was constructed by day labor

Day labor

Day labor is work done where the worker is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future. It is a form of contingent work.-Types:Day laborers find work through three common routes....

at the edge of the woods. The manor was designed by architect Steven Warder Ford, completed in 1914. Edgewood Manor is a buff brick 2½ story Craftsman home capped by a medium tiled hip roof with one hipped-roof dormer on the west side with three chimneys extending above the roofline. Edgewood Manor is eligible for listing in the National Register under Criterion C: Architecture as an outstanding example of an architect-designed Craftsman-style residence. The period of significance is 1914, which was the year construction was complete. Edgewood Manor has managed to maintain all of its original character and design elements with only minor changes having been made.

Grounds

There are many trees dating from the 1920s which include Pin Oaks, Butternuts, several Species of Pines, Hawthornes, Beech, large rhododendron, one native American chestnut that is a grand specimen from the days before blight. Two of these trees are registered state and national champions. There is also a Koi pond.

Moore Family

Haze Morgan is a direct relative to the well-known Morgan family who has a long rich history with western Virginia and West Virginia. Haze Morgan had two famous great uncles, Colonel Morgan Morgan, first known white settler in what became West Virginia, and General Zackquill Morgan, founder of Morgantown in 1766. Zackquill’s great-grandson, Francis Harrison Pierpont was governor of both Virginia and West Virginia and is widely known as the “Father of West Virginia.” Haze Morgan was a lawyer in the Clarksburg area. He practiced law with John W. Davis, the only West Virginian to successfully enter the race for President of the United States.