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Pocahontas Fuel Company Store (Switchback, West Virginia)

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architectural style
  
Neoclassical architecture

NRHP Reference #
  
92000330

Added to NRHP
  
17 April 1992

Pocahontas Fuel Company Store (Switchback, West Virginia)

Location
  
US 52, Switchback, West Virginia

MPS
  
Coal Company Stores in McDowell County MPS

Pocahontas Fuel Company Store is a historic company store building located at Switchback, McDowell County, West Virginia. It was designed by noted architect Alex B. Mahood, and built in 1917. It is a two-story brick building with a one-story wing that housed the business office. It has a flat roof, sits on a high stone foundation, and features Classical Revival detailing. It has a brick cornice with a concrete parapet and a concrete entablature with dentils.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

References

Pocahontas Fuel Company Store (Switchback, West Virginia) Wikipedia