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• Collection: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

• Title: John G. Wilson Building, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
• Other Title: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
  Stagecoach Inn
  Building No. 45
• Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
• Related Names:
     Wilson, John G.
     U.S. Armory
     U.S. Ordnance Department
     Stephenson, James
     Maslin & Company
     McKim & Company
     Maslin & McKim
     Stephenson, Ann C.
     Ward, Henry
     McGraw, Ann
     Holmes, Joseph D.
     Cavalier, Joshua
     Doran, William A.
     Doran, Mary Ellen
     Stephenson, Philip
     Price, Virginia Barrett , transmitter
     Price, Virginia Barrett , transmitter
     Null, Druscilla J. , historian
     Boucher, Jack E. , photographer
     Unknown , photographer
     Harpers Ferry National Historical Park , sponsor
     Lindstrom, Frederick J. , project manager
     Lavoie, Catherine C. , project manager
     Louden, Elizabeth I. , field team supervisor
     Strain, Mary Ellen , field team
     Andrews, Jennifer A. , field team
     Plaisance, Randy M. , field team
     Greenwood, Burke D. , field team
     Stein, Barbara M. , field team
     Furu, Arpad , field team
     Mark, H. , delineator
     Battle, Miles A. , delineator
     Crane, Sheila R. , historian
     Hoffman, Jason C. , delineator
     Stowell, Walton D., II , delineator
     Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) , sponsor
• Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
• Medium: Photo(s): 24
  Color Transparencies: 2
  Measured Drawing(s): 18
  Data Page(s): 38
  Photo Caption Page(s): 4
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
  
• Call Number: HABS WVA,19-HARF,20-
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Significance: The John G. Wilson Building is one of several two-and-a-half or three-story masonry buildings which were constructed in Harpers Ferry in the 1810s-30s. Combining both commercial and residential tenants, the Wilson Building and others like it attempted to maximize the income-producing potential of the town's available land. Erected on government-owned land in 1825-26, the site on which it was constructed was created in part by blasting into the rock face of the adjacent hill; the resulting stone rubble was used in its foundations and exterior walls. The Wilson Building is particularly noteworthy for its role in the contentious struggle between the Armory and the Wager family for commercial control of Harpers Ferry in the early nineteenth century. It may be the only extant commercial and residential building in Harpers Ferry which was privately constructed on land owned by the United States Armory.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-77
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-29
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N242
  • Survey number: HABS WV-229
  • Building/structure dates: 1825-1826 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1834-1836 Subsequent Work
• Subjects:
  • houses
  • stagecoach stations
  • hotels
  • wallpapers
  • domestic life
• Place:
  • West Virginia--Jefferson County--Harpers Ferry
• Collections:
  • Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
• Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: HABS WVA,19-HARF,20-
• Medium: Photo(s): 24
  Color Transparencies: 2
  Measured Drawing(s): 18
  Data Page(s): 38
  Photo Caption Page(s): 4

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• Call Number: HABS WVA,19-HARF,20-
• Medium: Photo(s): 24
  Color Transparencies: 2
  Measured Drawing(s): 18
  Data Page(s): 38
  Photo Caption Page(s): 4

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