Buildings of West Virginia

by S. Allen Chambers

"West Virginia's architectural history and engineering heritage have not been fully explored and assessed until now." "Buildings of West Virginia divides the state into ten regions, beginning with Charleston, and fans out to encompass the whole panoply of development from prehistoric times to the present. Readers will find within its pages both familiar images and many surprises. Included here are buildings ranging in type and date from the earliest remaining log houses and churches to mid- and late-twentieth-century designs by Walter Gropius and The Architects Collaborative; Skidmore, Owings and Merrill; and Michael Graves. Reflecting the diversity of the state's built environment, attention is paid to vernacular as well as high-style buildings: from the Washington family houses in the Eastern Panhandle to cottage rows at the numerous antebellum spa complexes: from the Wheeling Italianate houses, which reflect that city's nineteenth-century industrial prosperity, to a Charleston churc