Community Activities Building – Eleanor WV

City:
Eleanor, WV

Site Type:
Civic Facilities, Community Centers

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)

Completed:
1935

Quality of Information:
Good

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The structure initially housed community activities for the resettlement community in Eleanor. This is a long U-shaped side gable building designed in a roadside colonial design. It features double chimneys and had a center light tower that no longer exists.

Source notes

Historical Interpretative Sign at City Hall, Eleanor (visited 8 September 2018).

West Virginia Historic Property Inventory Form PU-0003-0428
(https://services.wvgis.wvu.edu/SHPOdocs/PDFs/ArchitecturalSites/PU-0003-0428.pdf), September 10, 2018.

Site originally submitted by Ernest Everett Blevins on September 10, 2018.
Additional contributions by Carol Denney and Brent McKee.

Location Info

WV 62 and Ash Circle
Eleanor, West Virginia Putnam County

Location notes: Corner of WV 62 (also known as Roosevelt Boulevard, Charleston Road, and Old US 35). and Ash Circle west of Dogwood Street. In 2018 a Dairy Queen was north across the street. -81.926234, Y: 38.534 17N: (419347E, 4265555N)523

Coordinates: 38.5358211, -81.9273773

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