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Pocahontas County Courthouse and Jail

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Built
  
1894

Opened
  
1894

Architectural style
  
Romanesque architecture

NRHP Reference #
  
94000724

Area
  
6,900 m²

Added to NRHP
  
15 July 1994

Pocahontas County Courthouse and Jail

Location
  
900C Tenth Ave., Marlinton, West Virginia

Pocahontas County Courthouse and Jail is a historic courthouse and jail located at Marlinton, Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The courthouse was built in 1894, and is a 2 1/2-story, brick, Victorian Romanesque building with a stone raised basement level. It has irregular massing with a central block that has a steep hipped roof. The front elevation features two towers, one at each corner. A courthouse annex building was added in 1976. The jail is a two-story brick building in simple Romanesque Style. It was built at the same time as the courthouse as the jailer's residence. A brick two-story shallow hip roofed ell was added in 1926, to house the jail.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

References

Pocahontas County Courthouse and Jail Wikipedia