Joshua Wilton House, also known as the Shank House and

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House, is a historic home located at Harrisonburg, Virginia. It was built in 1888, and is a -story, central plan, brick eclectic

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dwelling. It has two projecting gabled pavilions and a three-story octagonal turret covered by a pointed roof. The house features elaborate wooden trim and brackets, and a fancy

bargeboard Bargeboard (probably from Medieval Latin ''bargus'', or ''barcus'', a scaffold, and not from the now obsolete synonym "vergeboard") or rake fascia is a board fastened to each projecting gable of a roof to give it strength and protection, and to ...

decorates the eaves course of the gable roof. an
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in 1979.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Victorian architecture in Virginia Houses completed in 1890 Houses in Harrisonburg, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Harrisonburg, Virginia {{HarrisonburgVA-NRHP-stub