Clarksburg Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia, U.S. The district encompasses 119 contributing buildings in 16 blocks of the central business district of Clarksburg. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1] The district includes an extraordinary variety of architectural types and styles, most of them dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Prominent examples include Renaissance Revival and Italianate commercial and civic buildings, along with church, government, and institutional structures that reflect Clarksburg's development as a regional center for law, banking, trade, and transportation.[2]
The Clarksburg Downtown Historic District covers approximately 76 acres (31ha) in the traditional commercial core of the city. It is roughly bounded by Elk Creek and the railroad tracks on one side and by 7th and Main streets on the others, taking in the blocks around the Harrison County Courthouse and the surrounding business streets.[2]
The district contains a mix of multi story commercial blocks, bank and office buildings, government buildings, churches, and a small number of older residential properties that survived as downtown expanded. Many of the larger buildings were designed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in styles such as Renaissance Revival and Italianate, which appear in details like arched windows, bracketed cornices, stone and brick ornament, and formal classical facades.[2] Notable contributing properties within the district include landmark commercial and institutional buildings such as the Empire Bank (1907), the Goff Building (1911), the Robinson Grand (1930), and the Waldo Hotel (1904). Important civic and cultural properties include the Harrison County Courthouse (1932), the Post Office (1932), and long standing religious institutions like the First Methodist and First Presbyterian churches. Several properties within the boundaries, including Waldomore, the Stealey–Goff–Vance House, and the Nathan Goff Jr. House, are also individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[2] Together, the contributing resources document the period when Clarksburg emerged as a county seat and regional hub, shaped by the arrival of the railroad and the growth of banking, law, and retail trade in downtown.
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