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Simms School Building

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Built
  
1919

Opened
  
1919

Architectural style
  
Neoclassical architecture

NRHP Reference #
  
96000438

Area
  
2,400 m²

Added to NRHP
  
12 May 1997

Simms School Building

Location
  
1680 11th Ave., Huntington, West Virginia

Similar
  
Huntington Museum of Art, Marshall University, Camden Park, Big Sandy Superstore Arena, East Huntington Bridge

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.

References

Simms School Building Wikipedia