Woodsdale-Edgewood Neighborhood 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 Wheeling

Wheeling, West Virginia

Wheeling is a city in Ohio and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia; it is the county seat of Ohio County. Wheeling is the principal city of the Wheeling Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, Ohio County, West Virginia

Ohio County, West Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 47,427 people, 19,733 households, and 12,155 families residing in the county. The population density was 447 people per square mile . There were 22,166 housing units at an average density of 209 per square mile...

. The district encompasses 969 contributing buildings and is primarily residential, developed between 1888 and 1945. A number of popular architectural styles are represented including Shingle Style, Queen Anne

Queen Anne Style architecture

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, Tudor Revival, American Foursquare

American Foursquare

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, 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 Bungalow

Bungalow

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 style. The district also includes four Lustron

Lustron house

Lustron houses are prefabricated enameled steel houses developed in the post-World War II era United States in response to the shortage of houses for returning GIs...

 houses. Notable non-residential buildings include the Edgwood Christian Mission Alliance Church (1932), St. John's (1913), Mount Carmel Monastery (1915) designed by Frederick F. Faris

Frederick F. Faris

- Biography :He was born in St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio in 1870. He attended public schools and received no formal training as an architect. He joined the office of Edward Wells, another Wheeling architect and builder, then formed a partnership with Joseph Leiner. After that partnership...

 (1870-1927), and Good Shepherd Home (1912). Also located in the district are the separately listed H. C. Ogden House

H. C. Ogden House

H. C. Ogden House, also known as the Wise-Ogden House, is a historic home located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. It was built in 1893, and is a 2 1/2-story, "T" shaped, Queen Anne-style frame dwelling. It features a deep full-width front porch with Doric order columns, a round tower with...

 and William Miles Tiernan House

William Miles Tiernan House

The William Miles Tiernan House, also known as the Tiernan-Riley House, is a historic home located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. It was built in 1900-1901, and is a 2 1/2-story, "L"-shaped, Georgian Revival-style brick dwelling. It features two story Ionic order pilasters that flank the...

.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1997.