Monongalia County Courthouse | |
.jpg) Monongalia County Courthouse, October 2008 | |
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| Location | 243 High St., Morgantown, West Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 39°37′47″N 79°57′26″W / 39.62972°N 79.95722°W |
| Area | 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) |
| Built | 1881, 1891 |
| Architect | Mayers, George W.L.; Bailey, James P. |
| Architectural style | Italianate, Romanesque |
| NRHP reference No. | 85001525[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 8, 1985 |
Monongalia County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located in Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. The courthouse was erected in 1784 with the current structure built in 1891. This Romanesque style building consists of a two-story building with a basement, five-story clock tower and a three-story South tower. The building measures at 99’ by 83’ by 99’ by 76’ with the first story at fifteen feet high and the second story at twenty-two feet high. The distinctive central clock tower has a pyramidal roof, four doomed buttresses, stone molds over the four clocks and tower windows, arcade belfry, and quatrefoil design with the building date. The original northern facade was covered by an addition built in 1925 with another addition built in 1975. Connected to the courthouse is a two-story Italianate style jailhouse built in 1881.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is located in the Downtown Morgantown Historic District, listed in 1996.[1]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Randall S. Gooden (January 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Monongalia County Courthouse" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-18.