Monroe Street East Historic District

12th and Byron Sts., Wheeling, West Virginia. County/parish: Ohio.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 12, 1980. NRIS 80004036.

6 contributing buildings.

From Wikipedia:

Monroe Street East Historic District

Monroe Street East Historic District is a national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district encompasses six contributing buildings. They are a Greek Revival style church built in 1837, a Roman-Tuscan style dwelling dated to 1852 and known as the Paxton-Reed House, and an eclectic 1881 dwelling. Also in the district is a Richardsonian Romanesque style apartment building (c. 1892) and a set of vernacular post-American Civil War townhouses.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 1999, the district was encompassed by the East Wheeling Historic District.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86535895

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