July 22, 2008
Huntington’s Threshold of Splendor: Thomas & Ann Buffington Home, 1785-1790
By Don Daniel McMillian
First of a Series
William and Thomas Buffington came to Cabell County in plantation and the future site of the Village of Guyandotte. A chronology of the Buffington family, prior to any legal county records from 1795-1810, is listed with the names Jonathan and Thomas Buffington and Thomas Buffington Jr. and William Buffington.
Their son, James Buffington was born in the home in 1789 and he built one of the earliest homes in Quaker Bottom, or Proctorville. On August 8, 1822, James Buffington at the age of 33 married Eleanor Lane. Eleanor was one of many children reared by her widowed mother, who had settled on a farm where the ACF Industries is located today at Twenty-Third Street and Third Avenue. Eleanor’s sister Areanna Lane married James Holderby. The home above at 101 Main Street (Guyandotte) had been built between1785-1790. At 207 years old , the former Buffington home is the oldest historic home still occupied in Cabell County.
The home is a two-story painted red brick federal style home with four windows across the upper and lower front façade. Two paneled inset frames with rectangular sidelights and transom over the doors once graced a two-story verandah. Paired chimneys left of the center windows are framed simply and stone capped. The roof has extended eaves with decorative wooden brackets added later.
The federal structure stands on a high foundation and basement [constructed] of native stone. By 1800, many church services were held in the Buffington home. In 1804, Thomas Buffington deeded property on Guyan Street and Fifth Avenue for the first use of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a school house and graveyard in Guyandotte, Virginia.
Editor’s Note: Huntington Author, Don Daniel McMillian has spent more than 14 years researching the historic homes, architecture , and many of the first families in Cabell County before writing, “On the Threshold of Splendor: Historic Homes and Families.” The book is available at http://www.amazon.com or contact McMillian for a signed copy at 523-9071.
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Huntington’s Threshold of Splendor: Thomas & Ann Buffington Home, 1785-1790
By Don Daniel McMillian
First of a Series
William and Thomas Buffington came to Cabell County in plantation and the future site of the Village of Guyandotte. A chronology of the Buffington family, prior to any legal county records from 1795-1810, is listed with the names Jonathan and Thomas Buffington and Thomas Buffington Jr. and William Buffington.
Their son, James Buffington was born in the home in 1789 and he built one of the earliest homes in Quaker Bottom, or Proctorville. On August 8, 1822, James Buffington at the age of 33 married Eleanor Lane. Eleanor was one of many children reared by her widowed mother, who had settled on a farm where the ACF Industries is located today at Twenty-Third Street and Third Avenue. Eleanor’s sister Areanna Lane married James Holderby. The home above at 101 Main Street (Guyandotte) had been built between1785-1790. At 207 years old , the former Buffington home is the oldest historic home still occupied in Cabell County.
The home is a two-story painted red brick federal style home with four windows across the upper and lower front façade. Two paneled inset frames with rectangular sidelights and transom over the doors once graced a two-story verandah. Paired chimneys left of the center windows are framed simply and stone capped. The roof has extended eaves with decorative wooden brackets added later.
The federal structure stands on a high foundation and basement [constructed] of native stone. By 1800, many church services were held in the Buffington home. In 1804, Thomas Buffington deeded property on Guyan Street and Fifth Avenue for the first use of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a school house and graveyard in Guyandotte, Virginia.
Editor’s Note: Huntington Author, Don Daniel McMillian has spent more than 14 years researching the historic homes, architecture , and many of the first families in Cabell County before writing, “On the Threshold of Splendor: Historic Homes and Families.” The book is available at http://www.amazon.com or contact McMillian for a signed copy at 523-9071.
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