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Pocahontas County Courthouse and Jail
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Rear of the courthouse
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Location	900C Tenth Ave., Marlinton, West Virginia
Coordinates	38°13′4″N 80°5′18″W / 38.21778°N 80.08833°W / 38.21778; -80.08833
Area	1.7 acres (0.69 ha)
Built	1894
Built by	Manley Manufacturing Company
Architect	M.F. Giesey
Architectural style	Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	94000724
Added to NRHP	July 15, 1994

Pocahontas County Courthouse and Jail is a historic courthouse and jail located at Marlinton, Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The courthouse was built in 1894, and is a 2 1/2-story, brick, Victorian Romanesque building with a stone raised basement level. It has irregular massing with a central block that has a steep hip roof. The front elevation features two towers, one at each corner. A courthouse annex building was added in 1976. The jail is a two-story brick building in simple Romanesque Style. It was built at the same time as the courthouse as the jailer's residence. A brick two-story shallow hip roofed ell was added in 1926, to house the jail.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Michael Gioulis (March 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Pocahontas County Courthouse and Jail" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-09-01.

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