Preservation Alliance of West Virginia has named eight historic
properties to its 2009 Endangered Properties List. PAWV
Executive Director Karen Carper said the 2009 list is diverse
both geographically and architecturally. “We have a church, a
school, two historic hotels, a theater, a bridge, a private home
and a historic homeless shelter,” she said. Locations span the
state from the northern panhandle to the southern coalfields,
the Ohio River Valley to the Potomac Highlands.
Properties named to the 2009 list include Hinton’s McCreery
Hotel, Capitol Music Hall of Wheeling, First Ward School of
Elkins, Wyco Church of Mullens, Tyler County Home, the Bowers
house in Mannington, Glenville
Bridge and the Waldo Hotel of Clarksburg. All properties are
listed or eligible for listing on the National Register of
Historic Places and meet other criteria such as historic
significance, geographic location, preservation emergency, and
resources available to resolve the endangerment.
Endangered lists are collections of at-risk historic properties
in a given region compiled primarily to bring attention to the
plight of the properties and the organizations involved in their
preservation. These lists have been used by preservation
organizations for many years to help draw attention to
diminishing historic resources.
PAWV’s recently
revitalized endangered program was initiated more than two
decades ago. Periodically over the last 25 years, the
organization has sponsored an Endangered Properties List for
West Virginia. With new properties accepted annually to the
re-energized program, PAWV’s Endangered List will help focus
attention on the most pressing issues or significant resources
in West Virginia.
Nominations to the 2010 Endangered
Properties List will be accepted in the fall. Watch for
announcements here on this website or see "Preservation
News," the PAWV newsletter.
Questions?
Call:
304-345-6005
Or email PAWV Field Rep Lynn Stasick at: lstasick@pawv.org
