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	Bluefield Downtown Commercial Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	West Virginia Hotel
Location	Roughly bounded by Princeton Ave., Scott, High, and Russell Sts., Bluefield, West Virginia
Coordinates	37°16′4″N 81°13′18″W / 37.26778°N 81.22167°W
Area	28 acres (11 ha)
Built	1889
Architect	Alex B. Mahood, et al.
Architectural style	Moderne, Renaissance, Art Deco
NRHP reference No.	87000630
Added to NRHP	March 18, 1987

Bluefield Downtown Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia. The district includes 73 contributing buildings in Bluefield's central business district. The buildings are primarily three and four story masonry commercial buildings. Notable buildings include The Shamrock Restaurant (1885), People's Bank (1895), the Art Deco / Moderne style Colonial Theatre (1916, c. 1945) and Appalachian Power Company building (1923, 1939), Law and Commerce Building (1913, 1918), Benevolent Protective Order of Elks Building (1902, 1927), First Christian Church (1920), Elizabeth Kee Federal Building and Post Office (1911), Bluefield Sanatorium, and West Virginia Hotel (1923) designed by Alex B. Mahood. Located in the district is the separately listed Municipal Building.^[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Canfield, Bethany. "Bluefield Downtown Commercial Historic District" (PDF). West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Retrieved February 1, 2023.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] Canfield, Bethany. "Bluefield Downtown Commercial Historic District" (PDF). West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Retrieved February 1, 2023.

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