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1 Ll STED STXTtS DEPxKTblENT OF THE NTEROR NATONAL PARK SERVCE NATONAL REGSTER OF HSTORC PLACES FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEVEO NVENTORY -- NOMNATON FORM 2 NAME HSTORC AND/OR COMMON SEE NSTRUCTONS N HOW TO COMPLETE NATONAL REGSTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRES -- COMPLETE APPLCABLE SECTONS Shrewsbury, Samuel Sr., Old Stone House LOCATON STREET & NUMBER CM. TOWN House 310 Stubb Drive -NOT FOR PUBUCATON - Belle - VCNTY OF Third CONGRESSONAL OlSTRlCT. CODE COUNTY CODE West Vireinia 54 Kanawha 03 9 CLASSFCATON CATEGORY OWNERSHP STATUS,DSTRCT -PUBLC -OCCUPED BUtLDNG(S) XPRVATE -UNOCCUPED,!XRUCTURE -BOTH -WORK N PROGRESS,STE PUBLC ACQUSTON ACCESSBLE.. -OBJECT -N PROCESS LYES. RESTRCTED,BENG CONSDERED -YES. UNRESTRCTED -NO PRESENT USE AGRCULTURE -MUSEUM -COMMERCAL -PARK -EDUCATONAL ZPRVATE RESDENCE -ENTERTANMENT -RELGOUS,GOVERNMENT -SCENTFC -NDUSTRAL -TRANSPORTATON,MLTARY -OTHER: CTY TOWN W. Central Avenue yi,l-' q 317 Belle - VCNTY OF Wes t Virginia LOCATON OF LEGAL DESCRPTON REGSTRY OF DEEDS.ETC. Kanawha Count y Courthouse STREET & NUMBER CTY. TOWN Virginia and Court Streets Charleston REPRESENTATON N EXSTNG SURVEYS West Virginia DATE OEPOSTORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS CTY. TOWN ---- SEDERAL ATATE -COUNlY AOCAL

2 CONDTON CHECK ONE CHECK ONE DESCRBE THE PRESENT AND ORGNAL (F KNOWN) PHYSCAL APPEARANCE The Old Stone House at Belle, also called the Samuel Shrewsbury, Sr., House, is located thirteen miles east of Charleston at Belle, Kanawha County, West Virginia. The house was built on a level tract between the Kanawha River and the old James River and Kanawha Turnpike (U.S. Route 60) that carried 19th century traffic from Richmond, Virginia, and points East, across the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River. Because of its early date and stone construction, the house was a quickly rec~gnized landmark. With the growth of the area, particularly of the chemical industry at Belle after World War, the Old Stone House lost its orientation as the community grew up around it. The disappearance of former byways relating to the house, in addition to identical fenestration and door openings of the two facades, has made it impossible to determine which of the sides of the building was the original entrance elevation. - The Old Stone House is a small single-pile stone building with a mediumpitched gable roof. The outstanding structural and decorative feature is the 18-inch thick coursed rubble walls and the large roughly dressed sandstone quoins that strengthen the building's corners. nterior end chimneys of sandstone rubble were also constructed, although only the southeast chimney has survived. Four fireplaces were thus provided, one for each room. 1 PER ) P A + 1,140C -1 50C C - ' SPEC The southeast and northwest elevations are three bays each with a door centered in each facade. Rectangular attic windows flank the interior end chimneys in both gable ends of the building. The southeast doorway issurmountedwith a rectangular transom. The window and door openings of the Old Stone House are headed with flat stone arches. The entire house measuresapproximately 37 feet across the front and 25 feet along the sides. A narrow center hall, dividing the house front to rear, separates the two lower and two upper rooms. A single-flight stair rises to the second floor. Mortised and tenoned timbers and cross beams secured with wooden pegs form the truss system of the roof, an indication of 19th century building customs, but not proof that the beams form part of the original roofing system. Mortise and tenon technology was in wide use throughout the 19th century. Woodwork inthehouse has been altered, removed or replaced with later substitutes, probably dating from late antebellum times. A shed porch, perhaps of turn-of-the-century vintage, was added to the house, enclosed in part, and later extended to provide extra rooms for 20th century owners.

3 PEROD -PREHSTOHlC -1 JW ; Y AREAS OF SGNFCANCE -- CHECK AND JGSTFf BELOW ARCHEOLUGY-PREHSTORC -COMMUNTY PLANNhJ,LANDSCAY ARCH:TECURE -RELGON drcheology.hlstorc,conservaton,la'& -SCENCE AGRCULTURE -ECONOMCS -LTERATU=,SCULPTURE ZA~~CHTECTURE -EDUCATON,M;LTARY -SOClAUHUMANTARiAN A R T -ENGNEERNG -MUSC -THEATE3 XEXPLORATON/SETTLE?.!EL~ -COMMERCE -PHLOSO'-Y -TRANSPORTATON Ad -COMMUNCATONS -1 NDUS'TRY -POLTCS 'ioverkme4t -OTHER SPECFY JNVENTON BULDEA"ARCH'TECT Sauel Shrewsburv, Sr. MENT OF SGNFCANCE ' The Old Stone House at Belle, Kanawhr County, West Virginia, is a significant example of trans-allegheny pioneer architecture. ts heavy sandstone coursed rubble walls are unusual for the locale ere most hz??itatio~s were constructed ot hewn hardwood logs from the virgin forzsts. The cioice of durable materials was a reflection of the prominence of the Shrewsburg Srothers, Samuel, John and Joel who settled on the land, and of their deternixxition to pemanently reside in the Great Kanawha Valley. The Shrewsburys acquired their Kanawha tract frm Col. John Dtckinson, a prominent Virginia gentleman who fought the British at the Battle of Cowpens and the ndians at the Battle of Point Pleasant. Col. Dickinson patented large tracts in western Virginia and Kentucky, including the famous Salt Licks at the mouth of Campbell's Creek in the Kanawha Valley. Samuel a d John Shrewsbury married daughters of Col. Dickinson who left the Srothers, i-, 1796, a 704 acre tract that included both hill and bottom land on the north side of the Kanawha River east of Charleston. This property was called the "Pioneer Property" in the early landbooks. n May 1795, Saxael and john left for westerc Virginit zith their wives, children, slaves, household goods and other possessicns lozded upon wagons. Samuel and John Shrewsbury built teqorary log houses and cleared part of their lands. Shortly thereafter they becane very active in the booming salt business of the Kaaawha Valley that centered in the region of their property. The Shrewsburys thus acquired additional Tropertg and some wealth. Samuel Shrewsbury built circa 1810 a stone house on his original tract amidst t. a.walmut grove that tradition says supplled the building with interior woodwork and wainscothg. The house wit&ssed a growing movaent of traffic along the east-west artery between Richmond and the Ohio Basin callecl the Jaes River and Kanawha Turnpike. Asfde from the large =umbers of settlers passing along both banks of the river, herdsmen and salt wagon drivers passed by almost daily. The stage coach service between Lewisburg and Charleston was well established by the late 1820s when the right side of the Kanawha River vas the favored route. Formal division of the 704 acre Shrewsbury tract occurred in 1830 when Samuel and John, who lived on the land peacefully together for many years, decided to provide land for their respective heirs. The old house subsequently remained in the hands of Shrewsbury descendants until the late 19th century.

4 MAJOR BBLOGHiipHCAL REFERENCES Callahan, James Mortot~. semi-centennial History -- of West Virginia. Comission of W u ~ Virginia, t 1913, pp. 95,97. Seni-Centennial Dayton, Ruth Woods. Pi,,eers ---- and Their Homes on Upper Kanawha. Charleston, W.Va. West Virginia Publishing Co., 1947, pp L. ACREAGE OF NOMNATED P R~)P~~;P k acre QUAORANGLE NAME Belle, W. Va. Cu 4C4ANSLE SCALE J : UTM REFERENCES ~lt ] L4,2~ ) E L - -. l ~ l n l Jt4 ZONE EASTNG NORTHNG ZONE EASTNG NORTHNG =w L-LLd w hj u u GW -L 1 J VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRoTON HW L L -. L L U The property is located oo a city lot measuring 50' x 125' approximately 150 feet south of the intersection of Stubbs Drive with Dupont Avenue, between Stubbs Drive and Reynolds Branch Creek. LST ALL S AN c COUNT~ES FOR PROPERTlES OVERLAPPNG OR COUNTY BOUNDARES CODE' COUNTY CODE STATi CODE COUNTY CODE FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TTLE ORGANZATON STREET & NUMBER CTY OR TOWN Rodney S. Collins. Research h West Virslzia De~t. of C DATE Capitol Caplex (304) Charlestcz \Test Vir-;l HSTORC PRESERVATON OFFCER CERTFCATON THE EVALATED SGNFCANCE OFTHS PROPERTY WTHN THE S: NATONAL- X LOCAL x AS the designated State Historic F-eserva:;on Officer for the National Historic Preservat~on Act of 1966 (Public Law ). 1 hereby nominate this property fa- mcl~~sicm in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluatd according to the criteria and procedures set forth h 3e National Park Service. fi. HSTORC PRESERVATON -CER SlGNANRE TTLE West Virginia St.z=e Historic Preservation Officer DATE May 16, R)R NPS USE ONLY HEREBY CEFmN THATTHS properly S NCLUDED N THE NATONAL REGSTER DATE KEPER OF THE MAT- REUmR AmT: DATE 1

SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS VI CINITY OF CODE 05 STATUS ~OCCUPIED

SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS VI CINITY OF CODE 05 STATUS ~OCCUPIED ~ ---,. Form No..10-30t. }J N TED ST r\tes DEPARTMENT O f THE NTEROR NATONAL PAR K SERVCE 10 TAL EG!STER OF BSTORC PLACES NVENTORY*- NOMNATON FORM ij NAME SEE NSTRUCTONS N HOW TO COMPLETE NATONAL REGSTER