Middlebourne Historic District
Middlebourne Historic District | |
Location | Main, East, and Dodd Sts., Middlebourne, West Virginia |
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Coordinates | 39°29′34″N 80°54′38″W / 39.49278°N 80.91056°W |
Area | 50 acres (20 ha) |
Built | 1812 |
Architect | Multiple |
Architectural style | Classical Revival, Queen Anne, Federal |
NRHP reference No. | 93000613 [1] |
Added to NRHP | July 9, 1993 |
Middlebourne Historic District is a national historic district located at Middlebourne, Tyler County, West Virginia. It encompasses 88 contributing buildings that include the civic, commercial, and residential core of Middlebourne. Most of the buildings in the district date from the late-19th and early-20th century in popular architectural styles, such as Queen Anne and Classical Revival. The two oldest are the Federal-style Quinif House (1805) and Gorrell-Wetzel House (1807). Other notable buildings include the Tyler County High School (1907), First National Bank (1902), Smith's Drug Store (c. 1890), Nadene Theater (c. 1920), The Powell-Shore House (c. 1898-99; the town's best example of Queen Anne Architecture), the Weekley House (c. 1905), the Huth-Fletcher House (1895), and United Methodist Church and Parsonage (1910). Also located in the district is the separately listed Tyler County Courthouse and Jail (1854, 1874, 1922).[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Rodney S. Collins and Karen Maple-Stover (April 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Middlebourne Historic District" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
- National Register of Historic Places in Tyler County, West Virginia
- Historic districts in Tyler County, West Virginia
- Queen Anne architecture in West Virginia
- Federal architecture in West Virginia
- Neoclassical architecture in West Virginia
- Buildings and structures in Tyler County, West Virginia
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
- Northern Panhandle Registered Historic Place stubs