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
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
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
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
Bridge on Old National Trail, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Survey number: HABS WV-14 Public domain photograph of a bridge, arch over water, river, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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
Henry K. List House, 827 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: Built about 1858, this is a fine example of a house which incorporates elements from two design styles: The Adam Style, and the Romano-Tuscan Mode of the Renaissance Revival Style. This house was... 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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Main Street, Main Street (West Side) between Fourteenth & Sixteenth, W...
Survey number: HABS WV-205 Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"S" Bridge, U.S. Route 40 spanning Little Wheeling Creek, Elm Grove, O...
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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
Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
George W. Eckhart House, 810 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential home interior, living room, fireplace, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Williams Duplex Tenament, 730-732 North Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio Co...
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Jacob Dick House, 393 National Road, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: Located along the National Road which was the main thoroughfare into Wheeling from the east as early as 1838. The National Road began in Cumberland, Maryland and terminated in Wheeling, West Virg... More
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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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
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
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
Absalom Ridgeley House, 58 Fourteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...
Significance: This simple two story brick structure was built about 1838 by Absalom Ridgeley and has a double end chimney. Ridgeley was an early developer of the Ohio Valley region whose early investment in th... 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
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
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
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
Monument Place, Elm Grove, Ohio County, WV
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-5, FN-6 Survey number: HABS WV-21-8 Building/structure dates: 1798 Initial Construction
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Bridgeport Bridge, Spanning West Channel of Ohio River, U.S. Route 40,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
"S" Bridge, U.S. Route 40 spanning Little Wheeling Creek, Elm Grove, O...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, railroad structure, train viaduct, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
176 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-272 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 92000320
George W. Eckhart House, 810 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential home interior, living room, fireplace, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Jacob Dick House, 393 National Road, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: Located along the National Road which was the main thoroughfare into Wheeling from the east as early as 1838. The National Road began in Cumberland, Maryland and terminated in Wheeling, West Virg... More
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
Absalom Ridgeley House, 58 Fourteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...
Significance: This simple two story brick structure was built about 1838 by Absalom Ridgeley and has a double end chimney. Ridgeley was an early developer of the Ohio Valley region whose early investment in th... More
William T. Zink Double House, 2206-2208 Market Street, Wheeling, Ohio ...
Significance: William Zink, a carpenter and undertaker in Wheeling during the late nineteenth century built this double town house about 1878. The two sections of the house are connected by a second floor room... 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
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
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
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
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
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
Monument Place, Elm Grove, Ohio County, WV
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-5, FN-6 Survey number: HABS WV-21-8 Building/structure dates: 1798 Initial Construction
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
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
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
Wheeling Stone Arch Bridge, Spanning Wheeling Creek at Main Street, Wh...
Survey number: HAER WV-78 Public domain photograph of a bridge, arch over water, river, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hempfield Viaduct & Tunnel No. 1, Spanning Wheeling Creek at B&O Railr...
Survey number: HAER WV-80 Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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
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
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
Bridgeport Bridge, Spanning West Channel of Ohio River, U.S. Route 40,...
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George W. Eckhart House, 810 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
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Nancy Moore House, 2305 Chapline Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV
Significance: This house was built in 1868 for Nancy Moore. It is distinguished from the other Chapline Street Buildings studied in this survey by its smaller scale and simplicity of form and detail. The brac... 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