Page Coal and Coke Company Store
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Page Coal and Coke Company Store is a historic company store building located at Pageton
, McDowell County, West Virginia
. It is a two-story brick building on a tall, skillfully-constructed stone foundation. It was designed in 1914 by noted architect Alex B. Mahood
, and is in the Classical Revival
style.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1992.
Pageton, West Virginia
Pageton is an unincorporated census-designated place in McDowell County, West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, its population was 187. Pageton is located on the Tug Fork Branch of the Norfolk and Western Railway, along the Pocahontas seam of rich bituminous coal...
, McDowell County, West Virginia
McDowell County, West Virginia
McDowell County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The land that became McDowell was originally part of Tazewell County, Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,113. Its county seat is Welch. McDowell county is the southern-most county in the state, geographically...
. It is a two-story brick building on a tall, skillfully-constructed stone foundation. It was designed in 1914 by noted architect Alex B. Mahood
Alex B. Mahood
Alexander Blount Mahood was a Bluefield, West Virginia-based architect.He was born at Lynchburg, Virginia in 1888 and attended the École des Beaux-Arts. He came to Bluefield in 1912 and set up business. He was the architect for the West Virginia Hotel and many of his major residential works are...
, and is in the Classical Revival
Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, manifested both in its details as a reaction against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulas as an outgrowth of some classicizing...
style.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1992.