827 Main St
Wheeling, WV 26003, USA

Listed For Sale - $399,900

Description

Come see this one-of-a-kind Renaissance Revival/Italianate brick mansion Built in 1858 this building has a rich history and is listed on the National Register of Historic places. A first-floor doorway has glass panels thought to be a rare example of Sweeney Glass. Beautiful Chandeliers and unique hard wood flooring. It was originally known as the Henry K List house. This building could be a great professional office with ample parking. If used as residential property housing 5-6 bedrooms with 3 bathrooms. It consists of a two-story square main block with an offset two-story rear wing. Property includes a riverside parcel where a dock could be added.

Henry K. List House in Wheeling

Front and southern side of the Henry K. List House, located at 827 Main Street (WV 2) in Wheeling, West Virginia, United States. Built in 1858, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Henry K. List House - National Register of Historic Places

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

When Henry K. List died on May 28, 1900, he left to his descendants a house rich in architectural detail and filled with local history. For most the local memories are forgotten, for like the man and the generations who knew him, all have passed away. Nevertheless, the great Renaissance Revival style mansion and the details that enrich it remain at 827 Main Street, Wheeling, as a statement of the tastes and fashions of a former time.

Mr. List commissioned a house in the Romano-Tuscan mode of the Renaissance Revival, similar in style to the Italianate villas of the time, but more refined in detail. Erected c. 1858 on a well-sited residential lot, the mansion commands an excellent view of the Ohio River. Mr. List may well have observed the passage of river traffic to and from Wheeling from the windows of the cupola high above the roof.

Interest in river traffic would not have been unusual for a man associated with many businesses and banking interests. Henry K. List invested in insurance, real estate, grocery wholesaling, and iron and wool production.

Henry Kilbourne List was born October 20, 1821, in Wheeling, Virginia, the son of John and Ann Waite List, natives of England. John List was the first clerk and later cashier of the Northwestern Bank of Virginia at Wheeling. Daniel C., Mary, W. Eugene and R. H. List were other children of this marriage.

Henry K. List is said to have succeeded in business through his own efforts and without assistance from his parents. In the decade before the Civil War List became the senior partner in the wholesale grocery firm of List and Howell which dealt extensively in the Upper Ohio Valley. During the years immediately preceding the war, Mr. List was president of the Aetna Insurance Company of Wheeling.

After 1865, the grocery firm of List and Howell became the Henry K. List Co., and later the List, Morrison and Co. By 1885 Mr. List and his son Ambrose S. List had entered the banking business and secured the controlling interests in the City Bank of Wheeling. Henry K. served as its president until his death in 1900. The bank occupied a building at 1300 Market Street that was built through the enterprise of Mr. List. The six-story structure was erected in 1891 and was the finest office building in the city.

Henry K. List was well known as a philanthropist who contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities in West Virginia and other states. When he died he was accorded a special tribute in the May 29th, 1900, Wheeling Intelligencer by West Virginia Governor George W. Atkinson. The statement reads in part: "No man in Wheeling will be more generally missed and his death will therefore be universally deplored. He had no enemies and all who knew him were his friends. Along with many thousands of our people, I feel that my best friend has gone. Peace to his ashes, rest to his soul.

The family home passed to Mrs. Sarah J. List who died in 1909. The house was then owned by a son Ambrose, a prominent Wheeling businessman, and by a daughter, Hettie. Neither married and continued to reside in the house until their deaths. Hettie List left the house to the Women's Club of Wheeling in 1941. In 1946 the building was purchased by the American Red Cross.

Henry K. List House - Historical and Description Data

The attached document is from the Library of Congress and is apart of the Historic American Building Survey. At the time of the report, the American Red Cross occupied the building and was used as an office and classroom.

Henry K. List House, 827 Main St Wheeling, Ohio County, WV

Significance: Built about 1858, this is a fine example of a house that incorporates elements from two design styles: the Adam Style, and the Romano-Tuscan Mode of the Renaissance Revival Style. This house was built for Henry K. List, a wholesale merchant, and banker whose son, Ambrose, succeeded him as president of the City Bank of Wheeling and continued to live in this house until his death. A first-floor interior doorway has glass side panels thought to be a rare example of Sweeney glass.