Nellis Historic District

	Nellis Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Houses east of the company store
Location	Off Cty Rte. 1, Nellis, West Virginia
Coordinates	38°9′17″N 81°44′29″W / 38.15472°N 81.74139°W
Area	95 acres (38 ha)
Built	1920-1955
Architect	Minter Homes Corp.
Architectural style	Company housing
NRHP reference No.	00000292
Added to NRHP	March 24, 2000

Nellis Historic District is a national historic district located at Nellis, Boone County, West Virginia. It encompasses 82 contributing buildings, three contributing structures, and one contributing object. The district includes the commercial, ecclesiastical, and residential buildings built by the Nellis Coal Company as a planned community between 1920 and 1955. The community was a model for coal communities in Boone County and the southern coal fields. Included in the district is the Nellis Church / Nellis Archives (1926), stone wall constructed by the Works Progress Administration (c. 1935), coal company storage building (c. 1945), Nellis Company Store and Offices (1922), community bulletin board (c. 1921), Superintendent's House (c. 1925), and clubhouse (c. 1925).^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Erin Pogany and Katherine Jourdan (December 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Nellis Historic District" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved June 2, 2011.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[dhr-2] Erin Pogany and Katherine Jourdan (December 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Nellis Historic District" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved June 2, 2011.

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