Maplewood (Pliny, West Virginia)
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"Maplewood", also known as Sebrell-McCausland Farm, is a historic home and national historic district
located near Pliny
, Mason County, West Virginia
. The district includes eight contributing buildings and four contributing sites. The main house is a two story Italianate
-style brick farmhouse with wood siding. It features two round attic portholes and three porches. Also on the property are the following contributing buildings / sites: a coal house, chicken house, blacksmith shop, and well house all built about 1870; the Jenny Lind House (c. 1880); a schoolhouse / storage shed (c. 1890); machine shed (c. 1910); the ruins of the main barn and hog barn (c. 1870); and the Sebrell-McCausland Cemetery and Slave Cemetery, both established about 1850.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 2000.
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...
located 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 district includes eight contributing buildings and four contributing sites. The main house is a two story Italianate
Italianate architecture
The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and...
-style brick farmhouse with wood siding. It features two round attic portholes and three porches. Also on the property are the following contributing buildings / sites: a coal house, chicken house, blacksmith shop, and well house all built about 1870; the Jenny Lind House (c. 1880); a schoolhouse / storage shed (c. 1890); machine shed (c. 1910); the ruins of the main barn and hog barn (c. 1870); and the Sebrell-McCausland Cemetery and Slave Cemetery, both established about 1850.
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 2000.