W.H. Smith Hardware Company Building
W.H. Smith Hardware Company Building | |
Location | 119 3rd St., Parkersburg, West Virginia |
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Coordinates | 39°15′58″N 81°33′50″W / 39.26611°N 81.56389°WCoordinates: 39°15′58″N 81°33′50″W / 39.26611°N 81.56389°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1899 |
Architectural style | Romanesque |
NRHP reference No. | 03000349[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 2, 2003 |
W.H. Smith Hardware Company Building, also known as the Oil and Gas Museum of the Oil, Gas and Industrial Historical Association, is a historic commercial building located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1899, on the foundation of a building built about 1874. It is a four-story, masonry building with Romanesque Revival architectural details. The rectangular building measure 60 feet by 120 feet, with an 18 feet by 12 feet outcrop. It housed the W.H. Smith Hardware Company until the 1980s. It now houses the Oil and Gas Museum.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[1]
See also[]
- List of petroleum museums
References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Alan Rowe and James Miracle (January 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: W.H. Smith Hardware Company Building" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-09-15.
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Categories:
- History museums in West Virginia
- Buildings and structures in Parkersburg, West Virginia
- Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
- Romanesque Revival architecture in West Virginia
- Commercial buildings completed in 1899
- Museums in Wood County, West Virginia
- National Register of Historic Places in Wood County, West Virginia
- 1899 establishments in West Virginia
- Mid-Ohio Valley, West Virginia Registered Historic Place stubs
- Southern United States museum stubs
- West Virginia building and structure stubs