Smith Building (Parkersburg, West Virginia)

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Smith Building
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Location310½ Market St., Parkersburg, West Virginia
Coordinates 39°15′52″N81°33′42″W / 39.26444°N 81.56167°W / 39.26444; -81.56167
Area0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Built1898
MPS Downtown Parkersburg MRA
NRHP reference No. 82001786 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 10, 1982

Smith Building was a historic commercial building located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1898, and is a three-story, 18 bay, brick building. It featured corbeled hanging buttresses at the corners and curved brickwork. It once housed a bowling alley, but storefronts later occupied the first floor. [2]

Former site, in 2012, of the building, which has been moved or demolished Smith Building site in Parkersburg.jpg
Former site, in 2012, of the building, which has been moved or demolished

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [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. Historic West Virginia: The National Register of Historic Places. Charleston, West Virginia: West Virginia Division of Culture and History: State Historic Preservation Office. 2000.