Sidna Allen House

Sidna Allen House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
Sidna Allen House, September 2012
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Location	N of Fancy Gap on U.S. 52, near Fancy Gap, Virginia
Coordinates	36°41′39″N 80°41′39″W / 36.69417°N 80.69417°W / 36.69417; -80.69417
Area	23 acres (9.3 ha)
Built	1911
Architect	Allen, J. Sidna; Dickens, Preston
Architectural style	Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.	74002112[1]
VLR No.	017-0005
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	July 15, 1974
Designated VLR	January 15, 1974[2]

The Sidna Allen House is a historic house located near the town of Fancy Gap, in Carroll County, Virginia. The house was built in 1911 for Sidna Allen, brother of Floyd Allen; however, he was arrested soon thereafter for complicity in the courthouse shooting of which his brother was accused, and never again lived there.^[3]

On January 27, 1901, when Sidna Allen was 35 years old he married Bettie Mitchell. After Sidna and Bettie married, they decided to build a house. According to the book The Courthouse Tragedy, the whole house was made of the best wood around, and there were eight rooms in the house. In the book it says, "The floors were of oak, except the floor of our living room, which was white maple." The walls in the house were all plastered. It also says, "In the dining room we used quarter-sawed oak, finished in natural color wainscoting." The roof of the house was made of slate, which back then, all this wood and other materials were very expensive. They had a windmill at the house, and an acetylene generator which is what provided them with lights. The house was worth $13,000.00 in 1911. But a year later, the Hillsville courthouse massacre occurred. Sidna and his wife had only lived there one year.^[4]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.^{[citation needed]}

The house is owned by the Carroll County Historical Society and is currently closed for restoration, donated by the Widener family, Bonnie Wood and Stanley Widener.^{[citation needed]}

• J. Sidna Allen House Website