Falling Spring-Morgan's Grove
{{short description|Historic house in West Virginia, United States}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox NRHP
| name = Falling Spring--Morgan's Grove
| nrhp_type = hd
| nocat = yes
| image = Falling Spring-Morgans Grove WV1.jpg
| caption = Falling Spring in 2017
| nearest_city = Shepherdstown, West Virginia
| coordinates = {{coord|39|25|15|N|77|48|55|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = West Virginia#USA
| area =
| built = 1734
| architect = Edmonds, Stuart H.
| architecture = Classical Revival, Federal
| added = February 15, 1989
| refnum = 88002670{{NRISref|2008a}}
}}
Falling Spring at Morgan's Grove is part of a related complex of buildings and lands associated with the Morgan family and other prominent members of the Shepherdstown, West Virginia, community.
History
Falling Spring was completed by 1837 as a large, house and farm complex. The property was first settled by Richard Morgan, who noted several springs on the property, including "Bubbling Spring" and "Morgan's Spring", the starting point of the 1775 Bee-Line March. The house was built by Jacob Morgan, Richard's grandson, who was a successful merchant who lived and worked in Alexandria, Virginia.
Richard's son William inherited the property in 1855. William Morgan became a Confederate officer with the start of the American Civil War, serving with Generals J.E.B. Stuart and Turner Ashby.
Falling Spring was sold in 1904 to Dr. M.H. Crawford, who added two more columns to the portico. The design may have been undertaken by Winchester, Virginia, architect Stuart H. Edmonds, who had worked at Shepherd College and Bellevue. The Crawfords also added a Japanese garden to the property.{{Cite web|title=National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Morgan's Grove|url=https://wvculture.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Falling-spring.pdf |date=August 12, 1988 |author=Diana Suttenfield with Rodney S. Collins|publisher=National Park Service}}
The property and surrounding land, was granted to the Morgan family by Lord Fairfax.
Description
The three-story double-pile house is three bays wide with a center hall, resting on a very high raised basement. The end walls have parapets above the roofline, incorporating prominent double chimneys on either end. The house is limestone faced with stucco. Large porticoes were added on either main elevation around 1900.
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External links
{{commons category-inline|Falling Spring-Morgan's Grove}}
- {{HABS |survey=WV-33 |id=wv0071 |title=Jacob Morgan House, Shepherdstown vicinity, Jefferson County, WV |photos=2}}
{{National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia}}
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Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
Category:Houses in Jefferson County, West Virginia
Category:Neoclassical architecture in West Virginia
Category:Federal architecture in West Virginia
Category:Houses completed in 1734
Category:Georgian architecture in West Virginia
Category:Houses completed in 1837
Category:Historic districts in Jefferson County, West Virginia
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, West Virginia
Category:Historic American Buildings Survey in West Virginia
Category:Morgan family (West Virginia)
Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
Category:1837 establishments in Virginia
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