Gen. John McCausland House, also known as "Grape Hill," is a historic home located at Leon

Leon, West Virginia

Leon is a town in Mason County, West Virginia, United States, along the Kanawha River. The population was 132 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Point Pleasant, WV–OH Micropolitan Statistical Area.-History:The Gen...

 near Pliny

Pliny, West Virginia

Pliny is an unincorporated community in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States. It was named for M. Pliny Brown, a large landowner in the area. The ZIP code is 25158....

, Mason County, West Virginia

Mason County, West Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 25,957 people, 10,587 households, and 7,569 families residing in the county. The population density was 60 people per square mile . There were 12,056 housing units at an average density of 28 per square mile...

. The main house was built in 1885, and is a two story 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,...

 residence. It features a full length, one story, five bay porch with fluted Doric order

Doric order

The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.-History:...

 columns and metal covered hip roof. The house was built by Confederate General John McCausland

John McCausland

John McCausland, Jr. was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army, famous for the ransom of Hagerstown, Maryland, and the razing of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War....

 (1836-1927). The boundary increase expanded the listing to include 23 additional contributing buildings and 4 contributing structures and designated it a national historic district

Historic district (United States)

In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...

. They include a variety of farm-related outbuildings and a log house (c. 1834, 1930).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

in 1980 and the boundary expanded in 2000.