The University of Charleston (UC) is a private non-profit university with its main campus in Charleston, West Virginia. The university also has a location in Beckley, West Virginia, known as UC-Beckley.
Brooks F. McCabe, Jr. was a Democratic member of the West Virginia Senate, representing the 17th district in Kanawha County. First elected in 1998, Brooks served for eight years as chairman of the Senate Committee on Economic Development. He is a member of the Senate committees on finance banking & insurance, economic development, natural resources, pensions, and government organization. Senator McCabe has taken a leadership role in legislation relating to major reforms in workers compensation, tax policy and other past employ benefits. In addition, he has sponsored key legislation in economic and community development as well as planning and land use.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
Breezemont, also known as the Gen. C. C. Watts House, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was built about 1905 for Cornelius Clarkson Watts (1848–1930) an individual who contributed quite significantly to the history of both Kanawha County and the state of West Virginia. It is located atop Watts Hill overlooking much of Charleston, and is an example of vernacular Neo-Classical architecture.
Barnes-Wellford House is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia, United States. It was designed in the 1920s by English-born architect Fred Crowthers for Bernard Barnes, a leading Charleston businessman. The cottage size home is in the English Tudor style.
Fred Crowthers was an English-born architect who worked in Charleston, West Virginia for several years in the early-1920s before permanently establishing his business in Detroit, Michigan. A number of the structures he designed in Charleston are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Cox-Morton House, also known as Home Hall, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was built in 1902, for Frank Cox, secretary of Republic Coal Co., the West Virginia Colliery Co., and the Carbon Coal Co. He was known in West Virginia as the "Great Wildcatter". His daughter Alice Boyd Cox married James Morton of the Morton Coal Co. It is an American Foursquare-style house. It features a ballustrated terrace around two sides of the house and a doric portico, added in the 1920s.
Crawford-Gardner House is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. Ellis Thayer Crawford was the senior member of Crawford and Ashby, a real estate firm dealing in coal and timber lands. He and his wife built this home around 1904. It is an American Foursquare-style house that features an intricately patterned wood floor.
Danner-Fletcher House is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was a farmhouse built for Capt. George Danner (1826-1897) in 1896 in the late Victorian style. It is older than most homes in South Hills and is the only house of this style in the area.
McAndrews-Gallaher House is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was built in 1914 for Frank J. McReynolds, Workers' Compensation Commissioner for West Virginia. It is in the late Victorian farmhouse style.
Stoneleigh, also known as the Charles E. Ward House or Ruffner Payne House, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was built in 1917 as the residence of Charles E. Ward, a leading West Virginia industrialist.
Thomas-McJunkin-Love House is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was built for James R. Thomas, president of the Carbon Fuel Company, a coal mining business in the Kanawha Valley. Known originally as "The Maples," it was built for him and his family around 1921. It is in the English Tudor style and features half timbering in some of the gables and brick in others, but the exterior is predominantly in stucco.
Craik-Patton House is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was built by James Craik and his wife, Juliet Shrewsbury, in 1834 in the Greek Revival style. It was originally located on Virginia Street in Charleston, but moved to its present site in 1973 to save it from the threat of demolition. It features four massive columns that support the extended center roof with pilasters placed above the front facade. It was faithfully restored and preserved for the public by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the state of West Virginia and open for tours year round.
Laidley-Summers-Quarrier House, also known as Glenwood, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It is a two-story gable roofed dwelling in the Greek Revival style and built in 1852.
Samuel Starks House is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia.
Littlepage Stone Mansion, also known as The Old Stone Mansion, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was constructed in 1845 is one of only six houses within the City of Charleston that date to before the American Civil War. It was originally constructed as a two-story Federal style residence, with additions and improvements made in 1915 and 1936.
Sunrise, also known as MacCorkle Mansion, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was built in 1905 by West Virginia's ninth governor, William A. MacCorkle (1857-1930). It is a long, three-story stone mansion. Its gabled roof is dotted with dormers and chimneys and surmounts an intricate, but wide, cornice which gives the illusion that the house is smaller than it actually is. The Georgian structure rests on a bluff overlooking the Kanawha River, and from the northern portico one can see nearly the entire city of Charleston. The north side features four magnificent Doric, or neo-classic, columns which support the cornice and ashlar-finished pediment. In 1961 Sunrise Foundation, Inc., was formed for the purpose of purchasing the mansion and grounds.
Young-Noyes House, also known as the University of Charleston President's House, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was built in 1922 and is a white-painted 15-room brick house, featuring a central two-story gabled block and a shallow two-story gabled ell. It has a river-facing flat-roofed tetrastyle portico; the two-story smooth shaft columns are of the Doric order. The home is in the Colonial Revival style. It was purchased in 1951 to serve as the Morris Harvey College President's home.
McCabe Building may refer to:
The 2011 West Virginia gubernatorial election was a special election held on October 4, 2011 to fill the office of the West Virginia Governor. The office became vacant upon the resignation of Governor Joe Manchin, who was elected to fill the seat of Robert Byrd in the United States Senate in 2010 following Byrd's death. State Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin, first in the line of succession, became acting governor in 2010 after Manchin took up the Senate seat. On January 18, 2011, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that a special election for the office of Governor must be held so a new Governor can be in place by November 15, 2011, exactly one year after Manchin resigned. The primary election was held on May 14. Tomblin and Republican Bill Maloney won their respective primaries.
