Haugh House

United States historic place


Haugh House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Distant view from the west
38°21′5″N 78°49′27″W / 38.35139°N 78.82417°W / 38.35139; -78.82417
Area	1.7 acres (0.69 ha)
Built	1855
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	11000552^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 18, 2011

The Haugh House is a two-story, Greek-Revival lodge I-house residential building with a standing-seam gabled roof, wrapped in weatherboard, built about 1855. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 18, 2011.^[1]

It is in the center of the Cross Keys Battlefield in Rockingham County, Virginia. It has six-over-six windows with double-hung wooden sash, exposed floor and ceiling joists, a large center hall, original, interior chambered moldings and hand-planed partition walls. It originally included two limestone chimneys, but they were damaged during the Battle of Cross Keys, during the American Civil War and subsequently removed.^[2]

John Haugh purchased 80 acres of land from his father-in-law in 1844, and began farming it. In about 1855, the house was added. A two-story rear ell was added in about 1915, and several outbuildings were added from the 1920s on.

The front portion of the building is a two-story, single-pile antebellum log I-house built in the vernacular Greek Revival style, and remains largely intact. It is three bays on a continuous cut limestone foundation. It has seven windows with six-over-six, double-hung wooden sashes, the bay has three two-over-two double-hung wooden sashes. This portion of the building suffered significant structural damage from heavy shelling during the Battle of Cross Keys.

The second portion of the house, a two-story, balloon-framed ell was constructed about 1915. Electricity was added in the late 1930s.

References

^ ^a ^b "National register of Historic Places Listings, August 26, 2011". United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 2011. Retrieved 2013-11-15.
^ "NPS Form 10-900 - 082-5255 haugh House 2011 nomination Final" (PDF). United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 2011. Retrieved 2013-11-15.