John Herbert Quick House, also known as "Coolfont," is a historic home located near Berkeley Springs, Morgan County, West Virginia

Morgan County, West Virginia

Morgan County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of 2010, it's population was 17,541. Its county seat is Berkeley Springs. The county is one of three in Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area...

. It was built in 1913, and is a large 2 1/2-story mansion in the Colonial Revival

Colonial Revival architecture

The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style, garden design, and interior design movement in the United States which sought to revive elements of Georgian architecture, part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement in the arts. In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own...

 style. The front facade features a two story pedimented, with a one story rounded portico

Portico

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls...

 topped by a balustrade

Baluster

A baluster is a moulded shaft, square or of lathe-turned form, one of various forms of spindle in woodwork, made of stone or wood and sometimes of metal, standing on a unifying footing, and supporting the coping of a parapet or the handrail of a staircase. Multiplied in this way, they form a...

. It was built by author John Herbert Quick

John Herbert Quick

John Herbert Quick was an American author.Born October 23, 1861, near Steamboat Rock, Grundy County, Iowa to Martin and Margaret Coleman Quick, he was afflicted with polio as a small child...

 (1861-1925).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1984.