Wheeling Warehouse Historic District
Wheeling Warehouse Historic District is a national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district includes 20 contributing buildings and 11 contributing structures. They are warehouses and commercial style buildings and structures between Main Street and the Ohio River. All of the buildings date to the late-19th and early-20th century. The warehouses are mostly two- and three-story masonry buildings. The two-story commercial buildings have storefronts on the first floor and residential units above. Notable buildings and structures include the Pump Store (1933), Wheeling Stamping Plant (1932), Allied Plate Glass (c. 1920), Warwick China (c. 1887), Boury Warehouse (c. 1894), Ott-Heiskell Company (c. 1871), Edward Wagner Wholesale Grocers building (1915), the Moderne style former Greyhound Bus Station, and Main Street Bridge (1891).[2]
Wheeling Warehouse Historic District | |
Location | Roughly along Main St., Water St., 21 St., 22nd St., South St., 18th St., Eoff St. and Chapline St., Wheeling, West Virginia |
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Coordinates | 40°3′39″N 80°43′22″W |
Area | 49.3 acres (20.0 ha) |
Built | 1852 |
Architect | Long, M.A.; et al. |
Architectural style | Early Commercial, Moderne |
NRHP reference No. | 02001530[1] (original) 100007606 (increase) |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | December 16, 2002 |
Boundary increase | April 14, 2022 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, with a boundary increase in 2022.[1]
References
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- Michael Gioulis (October 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Wheeling Warehouse Historic Districtl" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved September 1, 2011.
External links
- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. WV-77, "Warwick China Manufacturing Company, Twenty-first & Water Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV", 2 photos, 1 photo caption page