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STREET SCENE

W. Main from S. Third Street – Clarksburg, West Virginia 

Clarksburg Downtown Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
 

 

MUNICIPAL BUILDING

227 West Pike Street - Clarksburg, West Virginia

 Built 1888

 Architect Charles L. Hickman
US Post Office from 1888-1932
Federal Building from 1932-1966
Municipal Building 1966-1998?

  

 

MERCHANTS BANK

300 W. Main Street – Clarksburg, West Virginia

 Built 1894

 Architect Charles L. Hickman
During the 1960’s and 1970’s occupied By Community Savings and Loan
Currently – City Bank 

 

 

TOWERS SCHOOL

Hewes Avenue – Clarksburg, West Virginia

 Built 1895

Named for Rev. George Towers first tutor of the
Randolph Academy – Built on this site in 1793
  

 

 WATTS-LAMBARD BUILDING

216 W. Main Street – Clarksburg, West Virginia

 Built 1902 

Constructed by C.O. Findley
Watts-Lambard from 1902-1919
Watts-Sartor-Lear from 1919-1967
Currently – Being Demolished 

 

NATHAN GOFF JR HOUSE


View of the property today.


 

463 W. Main Street – Clarksburg, West Virginia

 Built 1883

 Architect Sloan & Balderson of Philadelphia
Listed individually on the National Register
Demolished 1993

  

 

GOFF BUILDING

W. Main & Court Streets – Clarksburg, West Virginia

Built 1911

 Architect Frank Pierce Milburn
Last of five buildings commissioned by Nathan Goff, Jr.

 

  

STEALEY-GOFF-VANCE HOUSE

124 W. Main Street – Clarksburg, West Virginia

 Headquarters of the Harrison County Historical Society
Listed individually on the National Register
Owners included:  Jacob Stealey, Nathan Goff, Sr.
and Amy Roberts Vance

 

  

WALDO HOTEL

N. Fourth & W. Pike Streets – Clarksburg, West Virginia

 Built 1901-1904

 Financed by Nathan Goff, Jr.
Designed by Harrison Albright

 

 

HOTEL GORE


Hotel Gore Illustration - circa 1930s

 

W. Pike & S. Second Streets – Clarksburg, West Virginia

 Built 1910-1913

 Built by Dr. Truman E. Gore and Howard M. Gore, Governor of West Virginia an U.S. Secretary of Agriculture

 

 

UNION NATIONAL BANK

W. Main & Third Streets – Clarksburg, West Virginia

 Built 1912 – 1914

 Established 1905 in the Traders Building.
Built on the site of the Traders Hotel which was destroyed by fire in 1911.
Currently – Chase Bank

 

 

EMPIRE NATIONAL BANK

W. Main & Fourth Streets - Clarksburg, West Virginia

 Built 1907

 One of Clarksburg’s outstanding landmarks
Currently – BB&T Bank

 

  

ROBINSON GRAND

444 W. Pike Street – Clarksburg, West Virginia

 Built 1912

 Thirteenth theatre in the U.S. to be wired for sound
Gutted by fire in 1939 and restored in the following year
Currently – The Rose Park Theater

 

 

 

WALDOMORE

400 West Pike Street
Clarksburg, West Virginia

 Built 1839

 Built by Waldo Potter Goff (father of Nathan Goff, Jr.)
Clarksburg Public Library from 1930 to 1974
Now Houses the West Virginia Collection of the Library

 

BIRDS EYE ILLUSTRATION OF CLARKSBURG, WV 1889