The Sidna Allen House is a historic house located near the town of Fancy Gap

Fancy Gap, Virginia

Fancy Gap is a census-designated place in Carroll County, Virginia, United States. The population was 260 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Fancy Gap is located at ....

, in Carroll County

Carroll County, Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 29,245 people, 12,186 households, and 8,786 families residing in the county. The population density was 61 people per square mile . There were 14,680 housing units at an average density of 31 per square mile...

, Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

. The house was built in 1911 for Sidna Allen, brother of Floyd Allen

Floyd Allen

Floyd Allen was an American landowner and patriarch of the Allen clan of Carroll County, Virginia. He was convicted and executed for murder in 1913 after a sensational courthouse shootout that left a judge, prosecutor, sheriff, and two others dead, although doubt has been expressed about the...

; however, he was arrested soon thereafter for complicity in the courthouse shooting of which his brother was accused, and never again lived there. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1974.