Image: Waldo Hotel, Clarksburg, West Virginia - 20200510
Description: The Waldo Hotel, 18 North 4th Street at West Pike Street, Clarksburg, West Virginia, as seen in May 2020. Once the grandest hotel in all of Clarksburg, and more recently the subject of more than its share of failed redevelopment proposals, the eight-floor Waldo Hotel is nowadays a major flashpoint in the seemingly neverending battle between city boosters keen to tear down what they see as an abandoned eyesore and historic preservationists fighting to give it a new lease on life. One thing that's beyond debate, though, is its architectural splendor: the Moorish Revival-style Waldo was the work of Charleston-based architect Harrison Albright, who imbued its lobby with a resplendent mosaic-tiled floor and its exterior with a handsome façade in ruddy terra cotta punctuated by arcaded balconies. Built in 1904 for the aforementioned Nathan Goff, who named it for his father, the Waldo operated as a hotel until 1964, then for five years thereafter as the no-longer-extant Clarksburg campus of Salem College, and finally as apartments until the late 1990s.
Title: Waldo Hotel, Clarksburg, West Virginia - 20200510
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Author: Andre Carrotflower
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