Craik-Patton House, Daniel Boone Park, U.S. Route 60, Charleston, Kanawha County, WV

Significance: House was built as residence for lawyer, later clergyman, James Craik, Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Charleston, 1839-44. Craik was grandson of George Washington's physician. George Smith Patton bought house in 1858. Col. Patton commanded 22nd Va. Infantry Reg't. & fell at Winchester in 1864. Geo. S. Patton II, father of World War II Gen'l. Geo. S. Patton, was born in the house. House is excellent example of provincial Jeffersonian neo-classicism.
Survey number: HABS WV-214
Building/structure dates: ca. 1834 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1906 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1973 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75001894