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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
The Julia-Ann Square Historic District, is a national historic district located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It is to the west of the Avery Street Historic District. It encompasses all houses on Ann and Juliana Streets from Riverview Cemetery to 9th Street. There are 116 contributing buildings and one contributing site.
As Michael J. Pauley, historian, explains "The Avery Street Historic District District, Parkersburg's first "suburban" development, is highly significant for the historic role it played in sustaining the city as one of West Virginia's leading cities, housing the families who were the "life-blood" of the city's growth and development, and is significant for reflecting the rich architectural ...
West Virginia Circuit Judge George Hill ordered them to stop shredding and hand over the remaining papers. One of the items slated for destruction revealed that the department’s early calculations had actually set the safety limit for C8 closer to 1 part per billion—not 150 parts per billion, the figure announced at the Parkersburg meeting.
"Oakland," also known as the James M. Stephenson House, is a home located in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia.Although a slaveholder and sympathizing with the Confederacy, Stephenson was also married to the sister of Unionist Arthur Boreman, and allowed then Union Army Col. (later Gen.) James B. Steedman to use his grove nearby during the American Civil War.
The W.H. Bickel Estate is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story stone mansion built between 1928 and 1930 on the outskirts of Parkersburg, West Virginia.The 1,800-square-foot (170 m 2) building has a rectangular main section and a wing to the East.
Sharon Lodge No. 28 IOOF is a historic Independent Order of Odd Fellows clubhouse located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was designed and built in 1897, by noted West Virginia architect H. Rus Warne (1872-1954). It is a five-story, masonry building in an eclectic Romanesque Revival style.
Windmill Quaker State is a historic service station located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1928 by the Quaker State Corporation, and is an example of an architectural folly. It is a roughcast stucco building with a windmill atop the gable roof. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]