H. C. Ogden House, also known as the Wise-Ogden House, is a historic home located at Wheeling

Wheeling, West Virginia

Wheeling is a city in Ohio and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia; it is the county seat of Ohio County. Wheeling is the principal city of the Wheeling Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, Ohio County, West Virginia

Ohio County, West Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 47,427 people, 19,733 households, and 12,155 families residing in the county. The population density was 447 people per square mile . There were 22,166 housing units at an average density of 209 per square mile...

. It was built in 1893, and is a 2 1/2-story, "T" shaped, Queen Anne

Queen Anne Style architecture

The Queen Anne Style in Britain means either the English Baroque architectural style roughly of the reign of Queen Anne , or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century...

-style frame dwelling. It features a deep full-width front porch with Doric order

Doric order

The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.-History:...

 columns, a round tower with domed roof, and coursed wood shingles. The house was built for Herschel Coombs Ogden (1869-1943), a publisher, community leader, and businessman significant in the history of West Virginia.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1990. It is located in the Woodsdale-Edgewood Neighborhood Historic District

Woodsdale-Edgewood Neighborhood Historic District

Woodsdale-Edgewood Neighborhood Historic District is a national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 969 contributing buildings and is primarily residential, developed between 1888 and 1945...

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