Terra Alta Bank

Terra Alta Bank
Location: 109 E. Washington St., Terra Alta, West Virginia
Area: less than one acre
Built: 1893
Architectural style: Late Victorian, Italianate
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#: 97000786[1]
Added to NRHP: July 9, 1997

Terra Alta Bank, also known as The History House, is a historic bank building located at Terra Alta, Preston County, West Virginia. It was built in 1893, and is a three-story, six bay wide brick Italianate style commercial building. It has a cast iron storefront on the first floor of the main facade and metal window surrounds on the upper floors. The roof line of the building has a decorative bracketed cast iron cornice on three sides. The bank occupied the building until 1991, after which it was partly occupied by a local historical society.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.[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. ^ Charles A. Thomas (February 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Terra Alta Bank". State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/preston/97000786.pdf. Retrieved 2011-09-01. 

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