Irwin-Brues House, 201 North Front Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: This house was built for Isaac Irwin on Wheeling Island about 1853 shortly after the Wheeling Suspension Bridge opened up the island for development. The Brues family was long associated with Whe... More
U. S. Custom House, Market & Sixteenth Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County,...
The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex, which includes the U.S. Capitol building,... More
Thomas Paull House, 1314 Chapline Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: Built during the 1830s, this stately home is a reminder of the time when the 1300 block of Chapline Street was an elegant neighborhood. This simple two-and-a-half story brick building displays Fe... More
Edgar Wells House, 2301-2303 Chapline Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...
Significance: This house was built by Edgar Wells, a local builder-architect associated with the firm of Klieves, Kraft and Company. Erected about 1889, it reflects Wells' fondness for rich decorative detaili... More
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Wheeling Freight Station, Fourteenth & Sout...
Significance: Built in 1852, the Wheeling Freight Depot, and the passenger depot which once stood adjacent to it, formed the first terminus of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad on the Ohio River. Indeed, the B&O w... More
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Wheeling Freight Station, Fourteenth & Sout...
Significance: Built in 1852, the Wheeling Freight Depot, and the passenger depot which once stood adjacent to it, formed the first terminus of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad on the Ohio River. Indeed, the B&O w... More
178 Zane Street (House), Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: Turn of the century frame house that is a contributing structure to the Wheeling Island Historic District. Survey number: HABS WV-273 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 92000320
LaBelle Iron Works, Thirtieth & Wood Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...
Significance: La Belle is the largest American cut nail factory and one of two remaining United States cut nail manufacturers. La Belle has been in business for almost 140 years and still uses the same equipme... More
LaBelle Iron Works, Thirtieth & Wood Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...
Significance: La Belle is the largest American cut nail factory and one of two remaining United States cut nail manufacturers. La Belle has been in business for almost 140 years and still uses the same equipme... More
Alfred Paull House, 729 North Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: Built by prominent Wheeling businessman, Alfred Paull, The Alfred Paull House is a fine example of Queen Anne eclecticism the dominant style of domestic building in the last two decades of the n... More
Bridgeport Bridge, Spanning West Channel of Ohio River, U.S. Route 40,...
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Bridgeport Bridge, Spanning West Channel of Ohio River, U.S. Route 40,...
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Bridgeport Bridge, Spanning West Channel of Ohio River, U.S. Route 40,...
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Historic courthouse front door, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, ...
Original building built in 1905-1914. New addition built in 2002-2004. Original lobby decorated with marble pilasters and paneling, aluminum postal windows and pendant light fixtures. Photographed as part of an... More
The 1906 S. P. Norton House, one of several fine houses designed by ar...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
A block of Main Street in Wheeling, West Virginia. In the foreground i...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
The Stifel-Kossuth House in what was once Wheeling, West Virginia's, m...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built for George Stifel, owner of the largest dry-goods store in town. Later a famous photographer, George Kossuth, lived there. Credi... More
Mosaic mural at the Columbia Gas Building in downtown Wheeling, West V...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Artist: name not given. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
North Front Street homes on Wheeling Island, part of Wheeling, West Vi...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Wheeling Island was a rough-and-ready industrial section of town, but also the location of fine homes belonging to those who owned the... More
[Weirton, West Virginia viewed from across the Ohio River in Ohio]
Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by photographer for items in same group. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and... More
George W. Eckhart House, 810 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
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George W. Eckhart House, 810 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
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George W. Eckhart House, 810 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
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William Goering House, 701 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: This Second Empire Style house was built about 1883. It has a high mansard roof, dormer windows and is asymmetrically massed. It is a gracious house with careful interior detailing. It was buil... More
174 Zane Street (House), Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
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Central Glass Co., Wheeling, West Virginia. Blower and Mold Boy. Loca...
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Warwood Tool Company, Foot of Nineteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County...
Significance: The Warwood Tool Company makes hand tools using labor intensive forging operations, that transform raw steel into finished tools. These forging operations are the same as used when the company be... More
Warwood Tool Company, Foot of Nineteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County...
Significance: The Warwood Tool Company makes hand tools using labor intensive forging operations, that transform raw steel into finished tools. These forging operations are the same as used when the company be... More
Warwood Tool Company, Foot of Nineteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County...
Significance: The Warwood Tool Company makes hand tools using labor intensive forging operations, that transform raw steel into finished tools. These forging operations are the same as used when the company be... More
Warwood Tool Company, Foot of Nineteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County...
Significance: The Warwood Tool Company makes hand tools using labor intensive forging operations, that transform raw steel into finished tools. These forging operations are the same as used when the company be... More
Centre Market, Market Street between Twenty-second & Twenty-third Stre...
Significance: The 1853 structure was originally designed as an open market in the neo-classical style, with three aisles and cast iron Doric columns. The columns were cast by the Hamilton and Rogers Foundry, i... More
Centre Market, Market Street between Twenty-second & Twenty-third Stre...
Significance: The 1853 structure was originally designed as an open market in the neo-classical style, with three aisles and cast iron Doric columns. The columns were cast by the Hamilton and Rogers Foundry, i... More
Edward Hazlett House, 823 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: Built by Henry K. List and his wife Sarah, wealthy citizens of Wheeling, for their daughter, Jessie L. Hazlett, the Hazlett House represents one of the residential building achievements of 1891. ... More
184 Zane Street (House), Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
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Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...
Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More
Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...
Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More
Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...
Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More
Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...
Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More
Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...
Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More
Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...
Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More
182 Zane Street (House), Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: Turn of the century frame house that is a contributing structure in the Wheeling Island Historic District. Survey number: HABS WV-275 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 92000320
Holliday-Schaefer House, 2307 Chapline Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, ...
Significance: The Holliday-Schaefer House is an example of post Civil War eclectic architecture and utilizes elements of several different popular styles. The interior woodwork is beautifully executed and is i... More
John. W. Kenner House, 69-71 Nineteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County,...
Significance: An example of an Italianate vernacular double row house. Located in the Fulton Area of Wheeling amidst several industrial businesses and probably constructed for the purposes of workers' housing.... More
Joseph Speidel & Company Building, 1417 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio Co...
Significance: Joseph Speidel and Company had the largest wholesale grocery business in West Virginia during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This building, which was the company's first warehouse, i... More
Gregor Ackermann House, 2319 Chapline Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...
Significance: This is one of the most elegant and richly detailed houses on Chapline Street. Designed by Edgar Wells for Dr. Gregor Ackermann in 1888, this house manifests a proliferation of architectural deta... More
Gregor Ackermann House, 2319 Chapline Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...
Significance: This is one of the most elegant and richly detailed houses on Chapline Street. Designed by Edgar Wells for Dr. Gregor Ackermann in 1888, this house manifests a proliferation of architectural deta... More
Vigilant Engine House, 648-650 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: This fire house is the second built on this site. It was home to Vigilant Steam Fire Engine Company Number 3, one of the four original city fire companies. The present structure was built to rep... More
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Wheeling Freight Station, Fourteenth & Sout...
Significance: Built in 1852, the Wheeling Freight Depot, and the passenger depot which once stood adjacent to it, formed the first terminus of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad on the Ohio River. Indeed, the B&O w... More
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Wheeling Freight Station, Fourteenth & Sout...
Significance: Built in 1852, the Wheeling Freight Depot, and the passenger depot which once stood adjacent to it, formed the first terminus of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad on the Ohio River. Indeed, the B&O w... More
LaBelle Iron Works, Thirtieth & Wood Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...
Significance: La Belle is the largest American cut nail factory and one of two remaining United States cut nail manufacturers. La Belle has been in business for almost 140 years and still uses the same equipme... More
LaBelle Iron Works, Thirtieth & Wood Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...
Significance: La Belle is the largest American cut nail factory and one of two remaining United States cut nail manufacturers. La Belle has been in business for almost 140 years and still uses the same equipme... More
LaBelle Iron Works, Thirtieth & Wood Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...
Significance: La Belle is the largest American cut nail factory and one of two remaining United States cut nail manufacturers. La Belle has been in business for almost 140 years and still uses the same equipme... More
LaBelle Iron Works, Thirtieth & Wood Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...
Significance: La Belle is the largest American cut nail factory and one of two remaining United States cut nail manufacturers. La Belle has been in business for almost 140 years and still uses the same equipme... More
LaBelle Iron Works, Thirtieth & Wood Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...
Significance: La Belle is the largest American cut nail factory and one of two remaining United States cut nail manufacturers. La Belle has been in business for almost 140 years and still uses the same equipme... More
Medical Tower Building, Twelfth & Main Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County,...
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Alfred Paull House, 729 North Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: Built by prominent Wheeling businessman, Alfred Paull, The Alfred Paull House is a fine example of Queen Anne eclecticism the dominant style of domestic building in the last two decades of the n... More
First Presbyterian Church, 1301 Chapline Street, Wheeling, Ohio County...
Significance: This may be the oldest documented building in downtown Wheeling. Noah Zane deeded the land on which this Church stands "for the use, purpose and design of erecting a meeting house or church," in ... More
First Presbyterian Church, 1301 Chapline Street, Wheeling, Ohio County...
Significance: This may be the oldest documented building in downtown Wheeling. Noah Zane deeded the land on which this Church stands "for the use, purpose and design of erecting a meeting house or church," in ... More
Bridgeport Bridge, Spanning West Channel of Ohio River, U.S. Route 40,...
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Bridgeport Bridge, Spanning West Channel of Ohio River, U.S. Route 40,...
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One of twelve famous Madonna of the Trail statues, this one located al...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The statues were commissioned by the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution. They were installed in each of the twel... More
The 1915 Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Building in downto...
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The 1903 Tinker-Wright House, one of several fine houses in the Highla...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church in Wheeling, West Virginia, built i...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
The old Baltimore & Ohio railroad passenger station in Wheeling, West ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1907-1908, it is is a four-story, rectangular brick and limestone building in the Beaux-Arts-style. Passenger service there c... More
Three grouped stained-glass windows at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Many of the church's windows were produced by Tiffany Studio of New York, and others by the Lamb Studio of New Jersey. Left to right: ... More
Carol M. Highsmith - [Building] Wheeling, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
Gravestones and the chapel building at Mount Calvary Cemetery, adjacen...
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[Our Lady of Perpetual Help Ukranian Catholic Church, Wheeling, West V...
Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055). Forms... More
Small homes in a row on Wheeling Island, a part of Wheeling, West Virg...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This was once a booming industrial neighborhood, filled with modest homes (such as these) owned by factory workers, up to and includin... More
The First Christian Church building, now (in 2015), the Church of the ...
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William Mueller Store, 2242 Eoff Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: An example of Italianate vernacular brick building, built c. 1860 as a grocery store on the first floor and the merchant's apartment above on the second floor. Considered a contributing structure... More
Bank of Wheeling, 1229 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: Built in 1892 for the Bank of Wheeling this rusticated stone facade was a good example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. The firm of Edward B. Franzheim, one of Wheeling's most successful... More
George W. Eckhart House, 810 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
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George W. Eckhart House, 810 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
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George W. Eckhart House, 810 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
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180 Zane Street (House), Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: Late 19th Century frame house that is a contributing structure to the Wheeling Island Historic District. Survey number: HABS WV-274 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 92000320
174 Zane Street (House), Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
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174 Zane Street (House), Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
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Christian Hess House, 811 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: This two story building is an outstanding example of the French Renaissance, or Second Empire, style of architecture. Built in 1876 for Christian Hess, a local tailor, this house is in excellent ... More
Christian Hess House, 811 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: This two story building is an outstanding example of the French Renaissance, or Second Empire, style of architecture. Built in 1876 for Christian Hess, a local tailor, this house is in excellent ... More
Warwick China Manufacturing Company, Twenty-first & Water Streets, Whe...
Survey number: HAER WV-77 Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chapline Street Row Historic District, 2301-2319 Chapline Street, Whee...
Significance: The 2300 block of Chapline Street has been an integral part of Wheeling's urban streetscape for over one hundred years. The seven structures selected for study by this survey have changed little ... More
Warwood Tool Company, Foot of Nineteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County...
Significance: The Warwood Tool Company makes hand tools using labor intensive forging operations, that transform raw steel into finished tools. These forging operations are the same as used when the company be... More
Warwood Tool Company, Foot of Nineteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County...
Significance: The Warwood Tool Company makes hand tools using labor intensive forging operations, that transform raw steel into finished tools. These forging operations are the same as used when the company be... More
Warwood Tool Company, Foot of Nineteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County...
Significance: The Warwood Tool Company makes hand tools using labor intensive forging operations, that transform raw steel into finished tools. These forging operations are the same as used when the company be... More
Warwood Tool Company, Foot of Nineteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County...
Significance: The Warwood Tool Company makes hand tools using labor intensive forging operations, that transform raw steel into finished tools. These forging operations are the same as used when the company be... More
Warwood Tool Company, Foot of Nineteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County...
Significance: The Warwood Tool Company makes hand tools using labor intensive forging operations, that transform raw steel into finished tools. These forging operations are the same as used when the company be... More
Warwood Tool Company, Foot of Nineteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County...
Significance: The Warwood Tool Company makes hand tools using labor intensive forging operations, that transform raw steel into finished tools. These forging operations are the same as used when the company be... More
Centre Market, Market Street between Twenty-second & Twenty-third Stre...
Significance: The 1853 structure was originally designed as an open market in the neo-classical style, with three aisles and cast iron Doric columns. The columns were cast by the Hamilton and Rogers Foundry, i... More
Paxton-Reed House, 100 Twelfth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: This two-story residence was built by William Paxton in 1852. His son, James Paxton, lived here when he helped draw up West Virginia's first state constitution. It exemplifies the Romano-Tuscan ... More
George Paull House, 57 Fourteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: Built before 1845, this simple structure of Flemish bonded brick has grown in response to the needs of its owners. It is believed that this was originally a smaller structure to which succeeding ... More
Theodore Klieves House, 2313 Chapline Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...
Significance: The Klieves brothers, Theodore and Bernard, were partners in the building and construction firm of Klieves Kraft and Company. Their success and capabilities as builders in Wheeling are apparent i... More
Dr. John Frissell House, 54 Fourteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, ...
Significance: Built about 1835, the Frissell House is one of the oldest structures in downtown Wheeling. It is a simple three bay brick house with a double end chimney. The only decorative detail is the cast ... More
Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...
Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More
Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...
Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More
Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...
Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More
Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...
Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More
Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...
Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More
Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S...
Significance: Oldest vehicular suspension bridge still in operation in the world; span in excess of 1,0000 feet. First bridge built crossing the Ohio River. Originally designed and built by Charles Ellet in 1... More