Bank of Cairo

Bank of Cairo
Location: Jct. of Main St. and former Baltimore Ohio RR line, Cairo, West Virginia
Area: less than one acre
Built: 1897
Architectural style: Early Commercial
Governing body: Local
NRHP Reference#:

96000986

[1]
Added to NRHP: September 19, 1996

Bank of Cairo, now known as Cairo Town Hall, is a historic bank building located at Cairo, Ritchie County, West Virginia. It was built in 1897, and is a 2 12-story brick structure with classically inspired details. It features a unique corner entrance. It housed a bank from 1897 to 1931 and from 1941 to 1974. It now houses the Cairo Town Hall and serves as a stop on the North Bend Rail Trail.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ Kathryn Drost and Lisa Adkins (May 1996). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Bank of Cairo". State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/ritchie/96000986.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-09.