West Virginia Children's Home | |
![]() Looking north from Heavener Ave, July 2014 | |
Location | 230 Heavener Ave., Elkins, West Virginia |
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Coordinates | 38°55′58″N79°51′29″W / 38.93278°N 79.85806°W Coordinates: 38°55′58″N79°51′29″W / 38.93278°N 79.85806°W |
Area | 18.1 acres (7.3 ha) |
Built | 1910 |
Architect | Holmboe & Lafferty |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 94001287 [1] |
Added to NRHP | November 4, 1994 |
West Virginia Children's Home is a national historic district located at Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia. It encompasses two contributing buildings and two contributing structures. The original Children's Home building was built in 1909, with a main section and rear ell in the Colonial Revival style. An upper story to the ell was added by 1918, and an addition was built in 1935. The front facade features a portico with Corinthian order columns. The other contributing building is a two-story residence built in 1920. The contributing structures are the swimming pool (1935) and a brick storage cellar. It served as the statewide institution for the housing and placement of orphaned, neglected, and dependent children from 1911 until 1977. It was subsequently occupied by a residential treatment facility for disturbed teenagers. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. [1]
The Cole–Hasbrouck Farm Historic District is a historic home and farm and national historic district located along NY 32 north of the junction with US 44 and NY 55 at Modena, Ulster County, New York, USA. The district encompasses 21 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, and 5 contributing structures on a farm established in the 1820s. The main house was built about 1820, and is a two-story, five bay, brick and stone dwelling with a side gable roof. It has a two-story rear frame ell that subsumes and earlier 1 1/2-story kitchen ell. Other contributing resources are related to the house landscape and dependencies, the farm complex, and a hamlet that grew in the 1850s at the crossroads.
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