Fairmont Normal School Administration Building

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Fairmont Normal School Administration Building
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Administration Building, now Hardway Hall, in 2008
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LocationJct. of Locust Ave. and Bryant St., Fairmont, West Virginia
Coordinates 39°28′59″N80°9′37″W / 39.48306°N 80.16028°W / 39.48306; -80.16028 Coordinates: 39°28′59″N80°9′37″W / 39.48306°N 80.16028°W / 39.48306; -80.16028
Area1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built1917
ArchitectPaul A. Davis III
Architectural style Classical Revival
NRHP reference No. 94000216 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 28, 1994

Fairmont Normal School Administration Building is a historic school building located on the campus of Fairmont State University at Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia. It was built between 1915 and 1917, and is a large three-story Classical Revival style building sited atop a hill overlooking Locust Avenue. Its light coated brick exterior walls are ornamented with limestone and terra cotta details. Its front features a portico with eight Ionic order columns with shafts made of Indiana Blue Limestone. The original building measured 265 feet by 65 feet; the west wing was added in 1927. [2]

The building was renamed Hardway Hall in 1989 for Wendell G. Hardway, a former president of Fairmont State College. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Robert E. Crites (December 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Fairmont Normal School Administration Building" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
  3. "100th Birthday Celebration for Hardway Hall Set for Oct. 15". Fairmont State University. October 12, 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.

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