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Kirker House

building in West Virginia, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ6415659 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kirker House, also known as the Daniel and Donna Finell House, is a historic home located at Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia. It was built in 1884 and is a two-story, rectangular brick dwelling in the High Victorian Italianate style. It measures 42 by 35 feet (13 m × 11 m) and has a shallow-pitched hipped roof.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Kirker House” as building in West Virginia, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kirker, House and building.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1884, 1986—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kirker, House and building providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Kirker House”, the useful work is to connect “building in West Virginia, United States” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6415659. Authority coordinates are 40.279, -80.606. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1884 and 1986.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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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 “Kirker House”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kirker House primary sources, Kirker House archive and Kirker 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 “Kirker House”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Kirker 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.