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Coordinates: 39°35′14″N 77°54′32″W / 39.58722°N 77.90889°W / 39.58722; -77.90889
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Maidstone Manor Farm
Maidstone Manor Farm is located in West Virginia
Maidstone Manor Farm
Maidstone Manor Farm is located in the United States
Maidstone Manor Farm
LocationCounty Route 1/4, near Hedgesville, West Virginia
Coordinates39°35′14″N 77°54′32″W / 39.58722°N 77.90889°W / 39.58722; -77.90889
Area267 acres (108 ha)
Built1848
ArchitectLeigh, William
MPSBerkeley County MRA
NRHP reference No.80004408 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 10, 1980

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).[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Don C. Wood. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Maidstone Manor Farm" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved June 2, 2011.


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