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Oakland
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	1131 7th St., Parkersburg, West Virginia
Coordinates	39°15′52″N 81°32′36″W / 39.26444°N 81.54333°W / 39.26444; -81.54333
Area	6 acres (2.4 ha)
Built	c. 1840
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	79002604
Added to NRHP	May 29, 1979

"Oakland," also known as the James M. Stephenson House, is a home located in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. Although a slaveholder and sympathizing with the Confederacy, Stephenson was also married to the sister of Unionist Arthur Boreman, and allowed then Union Army Col. (later Gen.) James B. Steedman to use his grove nearby during the American Civil War. However, Union cavalry units occupied this his mansion for a time nonetheless, and damaged furnishings as well as the home and garden.

It was built in 1840, and is a two-story, L-shaped, red brick house in the Greek Revival style. It features a low hipped roof with cupola and a single bay, one-story portico with paired, fluted wooden Doric order columns. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It was donated to the WVU Parkersburg Foundation in 2015.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Wood County, West Virginia

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Henry Edmund Matheny, Wood County, West Virginia in Civil War Times, with an account of Guerilla Warfare in the Little Kanawha Valley (Trans-Allegheny Books, Parkersburg 1987) p. 101
3. Rodney S. Collins (January 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Oakland" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-09-10.

External links

• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. WV-46, "Stephenson House, 1131 Seventh Street, Parkersburg, Wood County, WV", 2 photos, supplemental material

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