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]
^ ab"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.
and 11 Related for: Monongalia County Courthouse information
MonongaliaCountyCourthouse is a historic courthouse building located in Morgantown, MonongaliaCounty, West Virginia. The courthouse was erected in 1784...
district are the MonongaliaCountyCourthouse, the Metropolitan Theater, and the Old Morgantown Post Office (currently the Monongalia Arts Center). The...
current or former countycourthouses corresponding to the county seats (or shire towns) of most of the United States' 3,144 counties or county-equivalents,...
claims to unpatented lands in the county of Monongalia—James Chew, assisted Mr. James Madison, surveyor. A courthouse record says: "John Madison assee...
defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in North-Central West Virginia, anchored by the city of Morgantown. As...
for the Preston Academy, 2002, pp. 1-8. Samuel T. Wiley, History of MonongaliaCounty, West Virginia (Kingwood, W.Va.: Preston Publishing Company, 1883)...
as "U.S. Post Office-Pullman" Old Morgantown Post Office, part of the Monongalia Arts Center in Morgantown, West Virginia, NRHP-listed Old Ashland Post...
the Old Harner Homestead), is a historic home outside Morgantown, MonongaliaCounty, West Virginia. Located at 1818 Listravia, in the Sabraton area, east...
Virginia Morgantown: About 200 protesters gathered outside of the MonongaliaCountyCourthouse on April 15. Wisconsin La Crosse: A student-led group of about...
Global Information
