Claymont | |
 Front entrance to Claymont Court | |
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| Nearest city | Charles Town, West Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 39°16′2″N 77°54′14″W / 39.26722°N 77.90389°W |
| Built | 1840 |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| NRHP reference No. | 73001908 |
| Added to NRHP | July 25, 1973[1] |
Claymont Court, or simply Claymont, is a Georgian-style brick mansion, the grandest of several built near Charles Town, West Virginia for members of the Washington family. The current "Big House" was built in 1840 for Bushrod Corbin Washington, nephew of Supreme Court justice Bushrod Washington and grand-nephew of George Washington, to replace the 1820 main house on his plantation that burned in 1838.
In 1899 author Frank Stockton purchased the house and lived there until he died in 1902. In 1943, Claymont was bought by West Virginia industrialist Robert Joseph Funkhouser, who at the same time bought the adjacent Blakeley and Cedar Lawn, other Washington descendant houses and large properties. He combined the properties into a 7,000-acre (28 km2) estate.
In 1974 John G. Bennett purchased Claymont to create an intentional community. It is currently used as a retreat center by the Claymont Society for Continuous Education.[2]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ Ted McGee (June 26, 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Claymont" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 3, 2013.
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