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Bluefield Downtown Commercial Historic District

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Built
  
1889

Opened
  
1889

Added to NRHP
  
18 March 1987

NRHP Reference #
  
87000630

Area
  
11 ha

Bluefield Downtown Commercial Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Princeton Ave., Scott, High, and Russell Sts., Bluefield, West Virginia

Architectural style
  
Moderne, Renaissance, Art Deco

Bluefield Downtown Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia. The district includes 73 contributing buildings in Bluefield's central business district. The buildings are primarily three and four story masonry commercial buildings. Notable buildings include The Shamrock Restaurant (1885), People's Bank (1895), the Art Deco / Moderne style Colonial Theatre (1916, c. 1945) and Appalachian Power Company building (1923, 1939), Law and Commerce Building (1913, 1918), Benevolent Protective Order of Elks Building (1902, 1927), First Christian Church (1920), Elizabeth Kee Federal Building and Post Office (1911), Bluefield Sanatorium, and West Virginia Hotel (1923) designed by Alex B. Mahood. Located in the district is the separately listed Municipal Building.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

References

Bluefield Downtown Commercial Historic District Wikipedia


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