Built 1919 Opened 1919 Architectural style Neoclassical architecture | NRHP Reference # 96000438 Area 2,400 m² Added to NRHP 12 May 1997 | |
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Simms School Building is a historic elementary school building located at Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia. It was built in 1919-1920, and is a two story wire brick, steel frame building in the Classical Revival style. It has a square plan, with a center auditorium surrounded by a circular corridor with classrooms on three sides. The front entrance has a center colonnade with four round limestone Doric order columns capped with a limestone frieze and projecting cornice. The second floor features an open porch with wood columns and a projecting cornice topped by a clay tile mansard roof. An addition was completed in 1964. The school closed after 1980, and it now houses 20 apartment units for the elderly.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.