Pocahontas Fuel Company Store and Office Buildings

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Pocahontas Fuel Company Store and Office Buildings
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Pocahontas Fuel Company store, photographed in 2011
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LocationCo. Rt. 8, Jenkinjones, West Virginia
Coordinates 37°17′28″N81°25′25″W / 37.29111°N 81.42361°W / 37.29111; -81.42361 Coordinates: 37°17′28″N81°25′25″W / 37.29111°N 81.42361°W / 37.29111; -81.42361
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
Architect Alex B. Mahood
Architectural style Classical Revival
MPS Coal Company Stores in McDowell County MPS
NRHP reference No. 92000326 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 17, 1992

Pocahontas Fuel Company Store and Office Buildings are a historic company store and an office building located at Jenkinjones, McDowell County, West Virginia. Both buildings were designed by architect Alex B. Mahood and built in 1917. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]

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History

Born in Glynneath, Wales, Jenkin B. Jones (1841-1916), the namesake for the coal town of Jenkinjones, West Virginia, founded the Pocahontas Fuel Company after consolidating several coal mining operations in 1907. [2] The two buildings were constructed to be durable and also as a symbol of success within the community. [3]

Description

Office building at Jenkinjones, West Virginia, photographed in 2011 Jenkinjones WV Office Building.jpg
Office building at Jenkinjones, West Virginia, photographed in 2011

The two-story brick company store sits on a stone foundation. It features a brick cornice with a concrete parapet and a concrete entablature with dentils in the Classical Revival style. The store building housed the store and a post office. [3]

The office is a two-story brick building with a flat roof. It has a bold concrete cornice with dentils across the front facade. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Lewis, Ronald (2008). Welsh Americans, A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields. University of North Carolina Press. pp. 74–75. ISBN   9780807832202.
  3. 1 2 3 Stacy Sone (December 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Pocahontas Fuel Company Store and Office Buildings" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-05.