Malden Historic District, Richard E. Putney House, 4406 Malden Drive, Malden, Kanawha County, WV

Significance: The oldest residence is Malden, the Richard E. Putney House is also one of the most imposing and least altered among Malden dwellings. Built circa 1836, the house ranks locally as a mansion. The first owner was Dr. Richard E. Putney, a physician who married David Ruffner's daughter, and from 1868 until 1952 the house served as the manse of the Kanawha Salines Presbyterian Church. The mid-nineteenth-century porch fronting the elliptical-arched Federal style main entrance provides one of the most salient examples of the general Malden tendency to mix styles. This unusually fine dwelling for its time and place is rated as one of the three pivotal structures of the Malden Historic District.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-64
Survey number: HABS WV-210-17