Oakland (Parkersburg, West Virginia)

"Oakland," also known as the James M. Stephenson House, is a home located in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia.

Although a slaveholder and sympathizing with the Confederacy, Stephenson was also married to the sister of Unionist Arthur Boreman, and allowed then Union Army Col. (later Gen.) James B. Steedman to use his grove nearby during the American Civil War.

However, Union cavalry units occupied this his mansion for a time nonetheless, and damaged furnishings as well as the home and garden.

It features a low hipped roof with cupola and a single bay, one-story portico with paired, fluted wooden Doric order columns.

This article about a property in Wood County, West Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.