Avery Street Historic District, is a national historic district

Historic district (United States)

In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...

 located at Parkersburg

Parkersburg, West Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 33,099 people, 14,467 households, and 8,767 families residing in the city. In 2006 the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that Parkersburg's population had decreased 4.4% to 31,755. The population density was 2,800.5 people per square mile . There were 16,100 housing...

, Wood County, West Virginia

Wood County, West Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 87,986 people, 36,275 households, and 24,884 families residing in the county. The population density was 240 people per square mile . There were 39,785 housing units at an average density of 108 per square mile...

. It encompasses 358 contributing buildings and one contributing object. It is a primarily residential area built as Parkersburg's first "suburb" or "extension" in the late-19th and early-20th century in popular architectural style such as Colonial Revival

Colonial Revival architecture

The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style, garden design, and interior design movement in the United States which sought to revive elements of Georgian architecture, part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement in the arts. In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own...

 and Queen Anne

Queen Anne Style architecture

The Queen Anne Style in Britain means either the English Baroque architectural style roughly of the reign of Queen Anne , or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century...

. U.S. Senator Johnson N. Camden

Johnson N. Camden

Johnson Newlon Camden was a United States Senator from West Virginia. Born in Collins Settlement, Virginia , he attended school in Sutton. He was appointed as a cadet to the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1846 until 1848, when he resigned...

 (1826-1908) owned most of the land now included in the district. In addition to housing, it includes churches, a school, and a small commercial area. It is located to the east of the Julia-Ann Square Historic District

Julia-Ann Square Historic District

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. It encompasses all houses on Ann and Juliana Streets from Riverview Cemetery to 9th Street. There are 116 contributing...

 and south of the Parkersburg High School-Washington Avenue Historic District

Parkersburg High School-Washington Avenue Historic District

Parkersburg High School-Washington Avenue Historic District, is a national historic district located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It encompasses 151 contributing buildings and one contributing structure...

. Located in the district are the separately listed Parkersburg Women's Club

Parkersburg Women's Club

Parkersburg Women's Club is a historic clubhouse located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built between about 1860 and 1879, as a private home in the Italian Villa style. It is a two-story, frame building with a very low-pitched hipped roof. It features a one-story wraparound...

 and the First Presbyterian Church/Calvary Temple Evangelical Church

First Presbyterian Church/Calvary Temple Evangelical Church

First Presbyterian Church/Calvary Temple Evangelical Church is a historic church at 946 Market Street in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1894, and is a two-story, brick and stone church building in a combined Romanesque / Gothic Revival style. It features a corner bell...

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It was added to the National Register of Historical Places in 1986.