Craik-Patton House: Washington's Doctor to Patton's Grandfather
West Virginia
The Craik-Patton House on the Charleston riverfront connects two of American history's most famous names through a single Greek Revival building. James Craik, who built the house in eighteen thirty-four, was the grandson of Dr. James Craik, George Washington's personal physician and a senior physician of the Continental Army.
In eighteen fifty-eight the house passed to Colonel George Patton, whose grandson became General George S. Patton of World War Two fame. The house was originally downtown on Virginia Street, where it stood for over a century before it was moved to its current riverside setting in nineteen seventy-three to save it from demolition.
The National Society of Colonial Dames in America restored and preserves it. Four massive columns still mark the facade exactly as they did when a doctor's grandson built it on the Kanawha frontier.
