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Historic house in West Virginia, United States United States historic place
Gov. H. Guy Kump House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Looking east from US 219, July 2014
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LocationUS 33 and 250, Elkins, West Virginia
Coordinates38°55′4″N 79°50′33″W / 38.91778°N 79.84250°W / 38.91778; -79.84250
Area3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built1924
ArchitectClarence L. Harding
Architectural styleLate 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Colonial Revival, Neo-Federal Revival
NRHP reference No.04000319
Added to NRHPAugust 18, 1983

Gov. H. Guy Kump House is a historic home located at Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia. It was designed by noted Washington, D.C.-architect Clarence L. Harding and built in 1924–1925, as a home for West Virginia Governor Herman G. Kump (1877–1962) and his wife Edna Hall Scott Kump (1887–1957). It is a 2+1⁄2-story, 42 foot square, red brick dwelling with a steeply pitched, slate covered gable roof. The front facade features a shallow Doric order entrance portico and it has a porte cochere and sun porch. The house is in a Neo-Federal Revival style with Neo-Georgian Revival elements. In 2008, the house was willed to the city of Elkins.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Rodney S. Collins and Michael J. Pauley (May 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Gov. H. Guy Kump House" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-09-10.
  3. Gaynor, Anthony (2008-04-23). "Kump House Willed To the City of Elkins". The Inter-Mountain. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
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