South Bluefield 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 Bluefield

Bluefield, West Virginia

Bluefield is a city in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 10,447 at the 2010 census. It is also the core city of the Bluefield WV-VA micropolitan area which has a population of 107,342.-Geography & Climate:...

, Mercer County, West Virginia

Mercer County, West Virginia

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. The district includes 84 contributing buildings in a residential area of Bluefield known as South Bluefield. The buildings are primarily large single family residences with broad lawns, landscaped entrances and yards. The properties were mostly developed between 1930 and 1940, and are representative of popular architectural styles including 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 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...

. A number of the homes were designed 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...

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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.