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Further research on this location, but not sure how to incorporate into the article.

Address is: 1500 Brinker Rd, Wellsburg, WV 26070-1281
Was until recently operated as a B&B named "Aspen Manor Resort"
Local resources that can confirm:
- See page 2-5 of the following for confirmation: https://landuse.law.wvu.edu/files/d/854053b5-26ee-4b30-a46a-3d249d531172/city-of-wellsburg-comprehensive-plan.pdf
- See last page of: http://wellsburg.lib.wv.us/may13.pdf
- See page 135 of: http://www.bhjmpc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Region_11_HMP_12_2017REDUCED.pdf
Review sites to collaborate this:
Last archive of the webpage for the resort before site was shut down (now controlled by domain squatters): http://web.archive.org/web/20190811101221/http://www.aspenmanorresort.com/
Old Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/aspenmanorresortinformation/

Appears that the "Aspen Manor Resort" is not longer functioning as such, at the present. -- 174.17.188.106 (talk) 06:37, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Book describing Vancroft can be found at: https://books.google.com/books?id=lCbhcwmEmu8C&pg=PT343#v=onepage&q&f=false

Architecture after Richardson: Regionalism before Modernism--Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburgh, Margaret Henderson Floyd, 1994, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0226254104, pages 343-344

another minor published source: https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2qOkhJGoQ8C&pg=PA474&lpg=PA474&dq=vancroft+wellsburg+wv#v=onepage&q=vancroft%20wellsburg%20wv&f=false
Carnegie Mellon University Architecture Archives hold a "portfolio of b&w photographs" from 1903 of Vancroft, described at: http://stanley.library.cmu.edu/arch/browserecord.php?recid=4910
http://www.wvgenweb.org/brooke/knights.html

That's all I can find right now. -- 174.17.188.106 (talk) 07:06, 31 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

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