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629-1_2-market-st-wheeling-wv-with-notes

If you click on the link, you get a bigger view of the house and you can actually read all Tom’s notes.

“629 ½ Market Street, circa 1885 – Samuel Kuglen, who built 629 ½ , was a noted businessman in Wheeling. He was a builder of boilers for steamboats among other products manufactured by the firm of Duffield & Kuglen. The house is Greek Revival in style, with much of the original fabric remaining. There is a wide frieze at the cornice with sodillions and dentils, a gable dormer with closed pediment, and fluted columns at the windows. The pediment is filled with a sunburst design. Lintels and sills are stone and the building is brick with a stone foundation. All windows have operable shutters.”

Tom Kuglen did all the work (He went overboard, sending and resending me the picture until I finally got an image I could download on my archaic PC). He google mapped the address from the previous post, then he actually looked up the all the terminology that helps to identify the house, which out great, or great-great grandfather, added to the house when it was built in the 1880′s. George Carenbauer, who is not actually a Kuglen, has promised me he will take a few pictures of the old Kuglen homestead the next time he visits Wheeling, which will be in a few days to see Aunt Joan! I suppose the next step is to find out more about the firm Duffield & Kuglen and if the story I heard about Samuel Kuglen moving the capital of West Vitginia on steamboat during the Civil War (on the Allegheny River, I am guessing) is true!

The Kuglen House in North Wheeling

TOM, you ROCK ‘N” ROLL