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Wheeling Historic District
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| Location | Roughly bounded by RR tracks, Eoff, Water, and 10th Sts., Wheeling, West Virginia |
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| Area | 55.8 acres (22.6 ha) |
| Architect | Walter, Thomas U.; Franzheim, Giesey & Faris |
| Architectural style | Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Greek Revival, Late Victorian |
| NRHP reference No. | 79002597 |
| Added to NRHP | December 31, 1979 |
Wheeling Historic District, also known as the Wheeling Central Business District, is a national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district includes 205 contributing buildings in the central business district of Wheeling. It includes the site of the original location of Fort Henry. The buildings are representative of a number of popular architectural styles from the early-19th century through the present including Greek Revival and Late Victorian. The District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Contributing buildings in the district include:
- United States Custom House (1859)
- United States Courthouse, Custom House, and Post Office (1905)
- St. Matthew's Church and Rectory (c. 1892)
- Thomas Paull House (c. 1835)
- English Lutheran Church (1897) designed by Franzheim, Greisey, and Faris
- First United Presbyterian Church (1825)
- City Bank Building (c. 1890) also designed by Franzheim, Greisey, and Faris
- Bank of Wheeling (1892) also designed by Franzheim, Greisey, and Faris,
- Capitol Theatre (1928), designed by Charles W. Bates
- Medical Tower Building (1915)
- Joseph Speidel & Company Building
Two views of Charles Bates' National Bank of West Virginia, later home to the W.M. Marsh Drug Company, built 1914-15 in the Wheeling Central Business District. At left is the original structure as depicted in a postcard ca. 1915, and at right is the building in 2016, shorn of its elaborate entablature.
It also includes the West Virginia Independence Hall and Baltimore and Ohio Passenger Terminal (1907-1908), which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as individual buildings.
All of the following are located in Wheeling, Ohio County, WV:
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. WV-53, "U. S. Custom House, Market & Sixteenth Streets", 15 photos, 3 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
- HABS No. WV-199, "Thomas Paull House, 1314 Chapline Street", 4 photos, 2 measured drawings, 7 data pages, 1 photo caption page
- HABS No. WV-182, "Bank of Wheeling, 1229 Main Street", 2 photos, 1 color transparency, 1 measured drawing, 8 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
- HABS No. WV-227, "Medical Tower Building, Twelfth & Main Streets", 3 photos, 1 photo caption page
- HABS No. WV-204, "Joseph Speidel & Company Building, 1417 Main Street", 6 photos, 1 color transparency, 1 measured drawing, 6 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
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