W. H. Smith Hardware Company Building

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W. H. Smith Hardware Company Building
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Location119 3rd St., Parkersburg, West Virginia
Coordinates 39°15′58″N81°33′50″W / 39.26611°N 81.56389°W / 39.26611; -81.56389
Arealess than one acre
Built1899
Architectural styleRomanesque
NRHP reference No. 03000349 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 2, 2003

W. H. Smith Hardware Company Building, also known as the Oil and Gas Museum of the Oil, Gas and Industrial Historical Association, is a historic commercial building located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1899, on the foundation of a building built about 1874. It is a four-story, masonry building with Romanesque Revival architectural details. The rectangular building measure 60 by 120 feet (18 by 37 m), with an 18-by-12-foot (5.5 by 3.7 m) outcrop. It housed the W. H. Smith Hardware Company until the 1980s. It now houses the Oil and Gas Museum. [2]

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [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. Alan Rowe and James Miracle (January 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: W.H. Smith Hardware Company Building" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-09-15.