Stone House Museum

Pennsboro, WV

Old Stone House, also known as the Webster-Martin-Ireland House, is a historic inn and boarding house, located at Pennsboro, Ritchie County, West Virginia. The main section was built about 1810, and is a 22-story stone structure, five bays wide and two bays deep, with a gable roof. Attached to it is a two story frame addition with a hipped roof. It features a one story porch across the front facade. It is open by the Ritchie County Historical Society as a historic house and local history museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

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