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Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House

Coordinates: 38°21′3″N 81°37′39″W / 38.35083°N 81.62750°W / 38.35083; -81.62750
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Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House
Gilmore House, April 2009
Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House is located in West Virginia
Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House
Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House is located in the United States
Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House
Location514 Broad St. (now Leon Sullivan Way), Charleston, West Virginia
Coordinates38°21′3″N 81°37′39″W / 38.35083°N 81.62750°W / 38.35083; -81.62750
Built1900
Architectural styleClassical Revival
NRHP reference No.88001462 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 17, 1988

Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House, also known as Minotti-Gilmore House or Harden and Harden Funeral Home, is a historic home and national historic district located at Charleston, West Virginia. It is a 2+12-story, Classical Revival brick detached residential dwelling built by 1900 on an approximately one-half acre lot in a business area of town. It features a columned portico and has undergone some alteration and deterioration. It was the home and location of a funeral home operated by Elizabeth Gilmore, a prominent African American in the Kanawha Valley.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form" (PDF). Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House. State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. April 4, 2009.