Fairmont Normal School Administration Building

Fairmont Normal School Administration Building
Administration Building, now Hardway Hall, in 2008
Location Jct. of Locust Ave. and Bryant St., Fairmont, West Virginia
Coordinates 39°28′59″N 80°9′37″W / 39.48306°N 80.16028°W / 39.48306; -80.16028Coordinates: 39°28′59″N 80°9′37″W / 39.48306°N 80.16028°W / 39.48306; -80.16028
Area 1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built 1917
Architectural style Classical Revival
NRHP Reference # 94000216[1]
Added to NRHP March 28, 1994

Fairmont Normal School Administration Building is a historic school building located on the campus of Fairmont State University at Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia. It was built between 1915 and 1917, and is a large three-story Classical Revival style building sited atop a hill overlooking Locust Avenue. Its light coated brick exterior walls are ornamented with limestone and terra cotta details. Its front features a portico with eight Ionic order columns with shafts made of Indiana Blue Limestone. The original building measured 265 feet by 65 feet; the west wing was added in 1927.[2]

The building was renamed Hardway Hall in 1989 for Wendell G. Hardway, a former president of Fairmont State College.[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Robert E. Crites (December 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Fairmont Normal School Administration Building" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
  3. "100th Birthday Celebration for Hardway Hall Set for Oct. 15". Fairmont State University. October 12, 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.


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