Smith Building, Parkersburg

Name: Smith Building
Address: Parkersburg, United States

#5 among attractions in Parkersburg

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Smith Building was a historic commercial building located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1898, and is a three-story, 18 bay, brick building. It featured corbeled hanging buttresses at the corners and curved brickwork. It once housed a bowling alley, but storefronts later occupied the first floor. ()

Built: 1898 (126 years ago)Coordinates: 39°15'50"N, 81°33'45"W

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Parkersburg United States

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Smith Building – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Smoot Theatre, St. Francis Xavier Church, Henry Logan Memorial AME Church, Parkersburg Bridge.

~1120 ftNE
Concerts and shows, Theater
Smoot Theatre, Parkersburg
6 min walk • The Smoot Theatre is a historic vaudeville house and movie theater located in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1926, and is a brick and terra cotta building with a simple Classical style front. It features a Greek key cornice and a second story inset with four fluted columns in antis.
~1140 ftNE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
St. Francis Xavier Church, Parkersburg
6 min walk • St. Francis Xavier Church is a historic church at 532 Market Street in Parkersburg, West Virginia. This church was built in 1869 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. St. Francis Xavier is one of the four original churches of the Diocese of Wheeling. St. Xavier is also the oldest church building in Parkersburg.
~1620 ftN
Church, Romanesque architecture
Henry Logan Memorial AME Church, Parkersburg
8 min walk • Henry Logan Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church at Ann & 6th Streets in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia.
0.4 miN
Bridge
Parkersburg Bridge, Parkersburg
11 min walk • The Parkersburg Bridge crosses the Ohio River between Parkersburg, West Virginia, and Belpre, Ohio. Designed by Jacob Linville, the bridge has 46 spans: 25 deck plate girder, 14 deck truss, 6 through truss, and 1 through plate girder. 50,000 cubic yards of stone were used for the 53 piers.
0.4 miN
Bridge
Parkersburg–Belpre Bridge, Parkersburg
12 min walk • The Parkersburg–Belpre Bridge is a four-lane cantilever bridge that connects Parkersburg, West Virginia to Belpre, Ohio across the Ohio River. The bridge was completed in 1980. The bridge had been signed U.S.
0.4 miNE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Bethel AME Church, Parkersburg
12 min walk • Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 820 Clay Street in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia.
1 miE
Greek Revival architecture
Oakland, Parkersburg
27 min walk • "Oakland," also known as the James M. Stephenson House, is a home located in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. Although a slaveholder and sympathizing with the Confederacy, Stephenson was also married to the sister of Unionist Arthur Boreman, and allowed then Union Army Col.
0.6 miNE
Neighbourhood
Julia-Ann Square Historic District, Parkersburg
16 min walk • The Julia-Ann Square Historic District, is a national historic district located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It is to the west of the Avery Street Historic District.
0.8 miNE
Park
House at 10th and Avery Streets, Parkersburg
21 min walk • House at 10th and Avery Streets is a historic home located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built between about 1860 and 1879, and is a two-story, frame house in the Eastlake / Carpenter Gothic style.
~350 ftN
Romanesque architecture, Romanesque revival architecture
Wood County Courthouse, Parkersburg
2 min walk • The Wood County Courthouse is a public building in downtown Parkersburg, West Virginia, in the United States. The courthouse was built in 1899 at a cost of $100,000 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by local contractors Caldwell & Drake, according to the plans of architect L.
0.4 miNE
Church
First Baptist Church, Parkersburg
11 min walk • First Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church at 813 Market Street in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1871, and is a two-story, three by six-bay, brick church in the Italianate style, which was popular at the time.

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Nearby attractions include Wood County Courthouse, Parkersburg (2 min walk), George Neale Jr. House, Parkersburg (5 min walk), Sharon Lodge No. 28 IOOF, Parkersburg (5 min walk), W.H. Smith Hardware Company Building, Parkersburg (5 min walk).

Smith Building, Parkersburg

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Smith Building – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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Which popular attractions are close to Smith Building?