Simms School Building

United States historic place


Simms School Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Simms School, March 2009
38°24′50″N 82°25′34″W / 38.41389°N 82.42611°W / 38.41389; -82.42611
Area	0.6 acres (0.24 ha)
Built	1919
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	96000438^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 12, 1997

Simms School Building is a historic elementary school building located at Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia. It was built in 1919–1920, and is a two-story wire brick, steel frame building in the Classical Revival style. It has a square plan, with a center auditorium surrounded by a circular corridor with classrooms on three sides. The front entrance has a center colonnade with four round limestone Doric order columns capped with a limestone frieze and projecting cornice. The second floor features an open porch with wood columns and a projecting cornice topped by a clay tile mansard roof. An addition was completed in 1964. The school closed after 1980, and it now houses 20 apartment units for the elderly.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Richard J. Dickson (February 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Simms School Building" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-07-23.