Municipal Building (Bluefield, West Virginia)

Municipal Building
Location: 514 Bland St., Bluefield, West Virginia
Area: 0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built: 1924
Architectural style: Classical Revival
Governing body: Local
NRHP Reference#: 79002591[1]
Added to NRHP: May 29, 1979

Municipal Building, also known as Old Bluefield Municipal Building, is a historic municipal building located at Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia. It was built in 1924, and is a two- to three-story, steel and reinforced concrete Classical Revival-style building. It features a three-story high pedimented central pavilion with four engaged Ionic order columns. In 1977, the city government of Bluefield moved to its new building.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the Bluefield Downtown Commercial Historic District, established in 1987.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ Rodney S. Collins (January 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Municipal Building". State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/mercer/79002591.pdf. Retrieved 2011-08-18.