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Greenmont Historic District is a national historic district located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia.The district includes 409 contributing buildings, 4 contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects in a primarily residential area of the Greenmount neighborhood of Morgantown.
The historic district is representative of significant developments in architecture, social history, and industry that occurred in Morgantown and the surrounding region between 1795 and 1945. [2] Morgantown is located along the Monongahela River which flows north to Pittsburgh and on to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
The district includes 501 contributing buildings and 5 contributing structures in a primarily residential area south of downtown Morgantown. The district is characterized by tightly packed dwellings on a hillside and represent a variety of post-Victorian architectural styles popular between 1900 and 1940.
Roughly along Monongahela R. from Warren St. to Walnut St., Morgantown, West Virginia Coordinates 39°37′42″N 79°57′39″W / 39.62833°N 79.96083°W / 39.62833; -79
Ford House is a historic home located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was built about 1868, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, L-shaped Gothic Revival style cottage. It features a steeply pitched gable roof, a Gothic arched window in the center gable, and lattice work in lieu of bargeboard on the front porch. [2]
Woodburn Circle, also known as WVU Quadrangle, is part of the downtown campus of West Virginia University, located in Morgantown, West Virginia, United States. [2] The circle, in reality a quadrangle grouped around an oval path, is a historic and distinctive architectural assembly of three collegiate buildings, which evolved in the late 19th century.
Stewart Hall is a historic library and administration building associated with the West Virginia University and located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia.It was built between 1900 and 1902, and consists of a gabled central block, a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story gabled entrance pavilion, and a monumental octagonal tower.
It is a one-story log house built in 1772. It is built of chestnut logs and covered with wood clapboards. Attached to the rear is a 19th-century frame addition. It was built by Michael Kern, perhaps, the first permanent settler of what is now Morgantown. When Lord Dunmore's War started in 1774, Kern built a stockaded fort around his cabin. [2]