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Glenn R. Cordell House (James Nelson House)

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James Nelson House
1820. 777 Crossroads Rd., off U.S. 522, 2.8 miles southeast of McConnellsburg

This is an excellent example of the ubiquitous stone five-bay, two-story, gable-roofed western Pennsylvania farmhouse. Unlike many older houses, it retains its five interior mantels with carved surrounds and eight cupboards with shelves and pegs, as well as high-style touches like keystones and corner quoins. The limestone four-over-four house was built for the Nelsons, one of only two families who owned the house until 1999. The twenty-two-acre lot also has a timber-frame Pennsylvania barn to the east.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lu Donnelly et al.
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What's Nearby

Patterson Farm (Thomas Logan Farm)
Police Station and Fulton County Historical Society (Fulton House)
Albert Stoner Building
Fulton County Courthouse and Courthouse Square
Robert B. Richards Farm (Puterbaugh Farm)

Citation

Lu Donnelly et al., "Glenn R. Cordell House (James Nelson House)", [McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-FU6.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 1

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 369-370.

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