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Fourth Ward School (Morgantown, West Virginia)

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Built
  
1910

Opened
  
1910

Architectural style
  
Romanesque architecture

NRHP Reference #
  
04000914

Area
  
1 ha

Added to NRHP
  
25 August 2004

Fourth Ward School (Morgantown, West Virginia)

Location
  
287 Eureka Dr., Morgantown, West Virginia

Similar
  
Cheat Lake, West Virginia University, Monongalia Arts Center, Dorsey Knob

Fourth Ward School, also known as the Wiles Hill School, is a historic school building located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It consists of the original 1910 school building with two historic additions from 1939 and 1952, and the 1983 gymnasium building. It is a two-story, red brick, Romanesque Revival building on a raised basement and water table of ashlar sandstone. The 1939 rear addition was built as a Public Works Administration project and has plain Art Deco style trim The 1939 addition contains a stage and an auditorium / cafeteria.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

References

Fourth Ward School (Morgantown, West Virginia) Wikipedia