Maidstone Manor Farm

CR 1/4, Hedgesville, West Virginia. County/parish: Berkeley.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 10, 1980. NRIS 80004408.

3 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site.

Also known as:

  • William R. Leigh House

From Wikipedia:

Maidstone Manor Farm

Maidstone Manor Farm, also known as William R. Leigh House, is a national historic district located near Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It encompasses a historic farm with three contributing buildings and one contributing site, the site of a slave cabin. The plantation house is a two-story, square brick dwelling with a slate covered pyramidal roof. It is three bays wide and two bays deep and features a one bay entrance portico supported by paired Doric order columns. Also on the property are a barn and brick smokehouse. It was the birthplace of noted artist William Robinson Leigh (1866-1955), father of William Colston Leigh, Sr. (1901-1992).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86534220

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