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Rauch House

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RAUCH HOUSE, BERKELEY COUNTY, WV
RAUCH HOUSE, BERKELEY COUNTY, WV

Rauch House is a historic home located near Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA. It was built in 1898 and is a two-story, brick Victorian Gothic-style residence. It measures three bays wide and six bays deep and has a steeply pitched hip roof with projecting gables. Also on the property is a barn (1897), smokehouse (1898), chicken house (1898) and pen building (1899).It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

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Rauch House
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RAUCH HOUSE, BERKELEY COUNTY, WV
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