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Monroe Street East Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
80004036

Year built
  
1837

Area
  
6,100 m²

Added to NRHP
  
12 February 1980

Monroe Street East Historic District

Location
  
12th and Byron Sts., Wheeling, West Virginia

Architect
  
Klieves,Kraft & Co.; Wells,E.W.

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival, Other, Romanesque, Romano-Tuscan

Monroe Street East Historic District is a national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district encompasses six contributing buildings. They are a Greek Revival style church built in 1837, a Roman-Tuscan style dwelling dated to 1852 and known as the Paxton-Reed House, and an eclectic 1881 dwelling. Also in the district is a Richardsonian Romanesque style apartment building (c. 1892) and a set of vernacular post-American Civil War townhouses.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 1999, the district was encompassed by the East Wheeling Historic District.

References

Monroe Street East Historic District Wikipedia


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