Colonial Apartments (Fairmont, West Virginia)
Colonial Apartments | |
 Colonial Apartments in 2013 | |
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| Location | 2 E. Garden Ln., Fairmont, West Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 39°29′0″N 80°9′54″W / 39.48333°N 80.16500°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1900 |
| Built by | Edward Phillip Kennedy; Donald Kennedy |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 06000653[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 26, 2006 |
Colonial Apartments, also known as the Kennedy Dairy Barn, is a historic building located at Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia. It is a three-story, gambrel roof building in the Colonial Revival style. It was built about 1900 as a barn and modified to its present form about 1942. Those modifications included adding a stone veneer, two hip roof porches, and the addition of a small end gable entrance portico with a partial return and Tuscan order columns. Also on the property is two-story side gable former milk house. It was converted to two apartment units at the same time the barn was converted to an apartment building.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.[1]
In 2009, Fairmont State University converted the building from faculty housing into The Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center, to support the Folklife-Folklore Studies program at FSU.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Michael Gioulis (January 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Colonial Apartments" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
- ^ "Folklife Center Groundbreaking Oct. 11". Fairmont State University. 27 October 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
- Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
- Colonial Revival architecture in West Virginia
- Residential buildings completed in 1900
- Buildings and structures in Marion County, West Virginia
- National Register of Historic Places in Marion County, West Virginia
- Apartment buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
- Mountaineer Country Registered Historic Place stubs