Ravenswood "Old Town" Historic District

Historic district in West Virginia, United States

United States historic place


Ravenswood "Old Town" Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Ravenswood, West Virginia, July 2006
38°56′53.2932″N 81°45′39.4734″W / 38.948137000°N 81.760964833°W / 38.948137000; -81.760964833
Area	125 acres (51 ha)
Architect	Brown, Tanzy; et al.
Architectural style	Mid 19th Century Revival, Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.	07000243 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	March 23, 2007

Ravenswood "Old Town" Historic District is a national historic district located at Ravenswood, Jackson County, West Virginia. It encompasses 313 contributing buildings and two contributing structures, the Ohio River Rail Road Steel Pratt-through truss Bridge and Concrete bridge on State Route 68 over Sandy Creek. It includes the commercial and civic core of the town, and surrounding residential buildings. It includes example of popular architectural styles of the mid- to late-19th and early-20th century, including Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Italianate, Craftsman, and Bungalow. Notable buildings include the McIntosh Building, First Baptist Church (c. 1876), Randolph Building/Caldwell Building (1907), the Grace Episcopal Church (c. 1900); Our Savior Evangelical Lutheran Church (c. 1928), Ravenswood Community Center (1938), and McIntosh House (c. 1890).^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Mark Gorman and Michael Gioulis (October 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Ravenswood "Old Town" Historic District" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved July 4, 2011.