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'''Klieves, Kraft & Company''' was a building contractor and architectural firm in [[Wheeling, West Virginia]]. The firm was involved in the construction of [[West Virginia University]]'s Woodburn Hall in the 1870s, among other historic structures in the state of [[West Virginia]].

Established in 1868 by Charles C. Kraft, who emigrated from the [[Kingdom of Hanover]] in [[Germany]] in 1834, and Theodore C. Klieves who also emigrated from the Kingdom of Hanover in Germany in 1846, the firm later added Edgar W. Wells as a partner in 1878, as lead architect and designer.<ref>Chambers, S. Allen. ''Buildings of West Virginia''. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.</ref>  Klieves, Kraft & Company stood at the head of the architecture, contracting and building business of [[West Virginia]], building such historic structures as Woodburn Hall (the original building of [[West Virginia University]], completed in 1876 at a cost of $41,500), and the homes of A. W. Kelly, George E. Stifel, Dr. Hazlett, A. W. Paull, McKinley, and other structures.

==Partners==
Bernard Klieves, president<br />
Charles C. Kraft, treasurer <br />
F. B. Klieves, secretary <br />
Edgar W. Wells, architect and designer

==Buildings on the National Register of Historic Places attributed to Klieves, Kraft & Company or its architects==

Centre Market Square Historic District (Wheeling, WV)<br />
Chapline Street Row Historic District (Wheeling, WV)<br />
Monroe Street East Historic District (Wheeling, WV)<br />
Robert W. Hazlett House (Wheeling, WV)<br />
Oglebay Mansion Museum (in [[Oglebay Park]], Wheeling, WV)<br />
Woodburn Quadrangle (at [[West Virginia University]], Morgantown, WV)

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110719062631/http://www.ia.wvu.edu/~magazine/issues/fall2001/htmlfiles/woodburn.html Woodburn Hall]
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvwags/bioklie3.txt Klieves, Kraft and Company- From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY"]
* [http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/wv/Ohio/state.html Wheeling Area Buildings on the National Register of Historic Places]

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