Prato Rio

Prato Rio, also known as Hopewell, is a historic house near Leetown in Jefferson County, West Virginia. Its oldest section is a log cabin built around 1731 by Han Yost Heydt, enlarged with a stone extension in 1733 and joined in a hall-and-parlor plan, with a second story and further additions following through the nineteenth century. In 1774 the estate, then a 3,000-acre plantation, was bought by Continental Army General Charles Lee, who renamed it Prato Rio, Portuguese for stream on the meadow, and lived there as a recluse with his dogs until his death in 1782. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1973. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/