Gen. Albert Gallatin Jenkins House, also known as "Green Bottom," is a historic home located near Green Bottom

Lesage, West Virginia

Lesage is an unincorporated census-designated place on Ohio River Road in Cabell County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,358. It is the nearest community to Clover Site, a National Historic Landmark....

, Cabell County, West Virginia

Cabell County, West Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 96,784 people, 41,180 households, and 25,490 families residing in the county. The population density was 344 people per square mile . There were 45,615 housing units at an average density of 162 per square mile...

. It was built about 1835, and is a 2 1/2 story, rectangular, brick dwelling in a late period Federal

Federal architecture

Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the United States between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815. This style shares its name with its era, the Federal Period. The name Federal style is also used in association with furniture design...

 style. It sits on a sandstone

Sandstone

Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized minerals or rock grains.Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust. Like sand, sandstone may be any colour, but the most common colours are tan, brown, yellow,...

 foundation and the interior has a center hall, single pile plan. The most prominent resident was 1850s lawyer and politician Albert Gallatin Jenkins

Albert G. Jenkins

Albert Gallatin Jenkins was an attorney, planter, representative to the United States Congress and First Confederate Congress, and a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War...

 (1830-1864). The house is open as a museum operated by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1978.