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Downtown Richwood Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Downtown Richwood Historic District, September 2006
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Location	Roughly including portions of Main St. Oakford Ave. and Commercial St., Richwood, West Virginia
Coordinates	38°13′28″N 80°32′3″W / 38.22444°N 80.53417°W / 38.22444; -80.53417
Area	10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built	1900
Architect	Dean, Levi J.; Tincher, J.A.
Architectural style	Italianate, Romanesque, et al.
NRHP reference No.	01000778
Added to NRHP	July 25, 2001

Downtown Richwood Historic District is a national historic district located at Richwood, Nicholas County, West Virginia. The district includes 51 contributing buildings in the central business district of Richwood. They consist of mostly two and three-story masonry commercial buildings from the late 19th and early 20th century. They have storefronts on the first floor and house on the upper floors. Notable buildings include the U.S. Post Office (1936), First Methodist Church (1922) designed by Levi J. Dean, Richwood Banking and Trust Building (1902), and New Star Theatre, also by Levi J. Dean.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System – (#01000778)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Michael Gioulis (January 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Downtown Richwood Historic District" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved August 18, 2011.

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