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Col. Thomas Brown House

building in West Virginia, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ5141790 ↗
Source-derived summary

Col. Thomas Brown House is a historic home located near Reedsville, Preston County, West Virginia, United States. It was built in 1837, and is a two-story, sandstone Federal style dwelling. It measures 40 feet wide and 20 feet deep and has a gable roof.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

Editorial summary

“Col. Thomas Brown House” enters the record as building in West Virginia, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Thomas, Brown and House can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1837, 1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Thomas, Brown and House.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Col. Thomas Brown House” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Thomas, Brown and House provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5141790. Authority coordinates are 39.475, -79.812. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1837 and 1994.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Col. Thomas Brown House”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Col. Thomas Brown House primary sources, Col. Thomas Brown House archive and Thomas research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Col. Thomas Brown House”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Col. Thomas Brown House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.