The house is significant as the home of George Pinkney Morgan, an early Marion County coal developer, farmer, and inventor. It is also significant in that it remains the only extant pre-Civil War dwelling in the Monongahela Valley that is directly associated with the prominent Morgan family, in particular with David Morgan, an early pioneer who played a pivotal role in the early settlement and development of Monongalia, and later Marion county. David Morgan and his family are buried in the cemetery on the property. The George Pinkney Morgan House remains an unusually intact representation of a particular type of Greek Revival style architecture, which has retained its architectural integrity into the twenty- first century. The earlier brick building can easily be discerned despite wooden framed additions added at some date in the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries. The interior finishing details, including molded window surrounds, baseboards and mantle enclosures, all remain from the original period of construction. - NRHP Registration, 13 March 2003

Morgan Family Cemetery

The Morgan Family Cemetery resides about 500 feet northeast of the house. A post and rail fence with a swing gate currently surrounds the graves. The rectangular site is approximately 60 feet by 50 feet with the larger length running parallel to the current road. A stately evergreen marks the southwest corner of the enclosure. Contained within are the remains of the original settlers of this property, Sarah and David Morgan. Their graves are the earliest extant stones, dating from 1799 and 1813 respectively. Other family members reside within the cemetery. Of particular interest is the grave of George Pinkney Morgan, the owner of the property at the time of the house's construction. His stone is inscribed with the following, "Sacred to the memory George Morgan who died in Camp Chase Dec 30, 1861 aged 41 years." It may be that his body does not reside at this location due to his death in a Confederate prison camp in the early years of the war. However, his name does not appear in the record of Confederate dead buried at Camp Chase, Ohio, leading one to suppose a family member claimed his body. In any case, the children and grandchildren of David Morgan reside in this cemetery, as do the children of George P Morgan. - NRHP Registration, 13 March 2003