Rohrbaugh Cabin

Historic house in West Virginia, United States

United States historic place


Rohrbaugh Cabin
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

38°57′20″N 79°14′31″W / 38.95556°N 79.24194°W / 38.95556; -79.24194
Area	4.3 acres (1.7 ha)
Built	c. 1880
Architectural style	Vernacular, Log
NRHP reference No.	93000490 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 3, 1993

Rohrbaugh Cabin — also known as Allegheny Cabin — is a historic log cabin located on the eastern slope of North Fork Mountain near Petersburg, Grant County, West Virginia, USA.

Rohrbaugh Cabin was built about 1880, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, "double pen" plan log house built of tulip poplar logs. It measures 26 feet, two inches long, and 16 feet, 6 inches, deep. Also on the property are a frame storage shed, a log animal pen, stone springhouse remains, and portions of the original Smokehole roadbed.^[2]

Rohrbaugh Cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ C. Richard Bierce (January 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Rohrbaugh Cabin" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-06-20.