Wheeling Island 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 includes 1,110 contributing buildings, 5 contributing sites, 2 contributing structures, and 3 contributing objects. It is a largely residential district consisting of two-story, frame detached dwellings built in the mid- to late-19th and early-20th century, including the Irwin-Brues House (1853) and a number of houses on Zane Street. The houses are representative of a number of popular architectural styles including Bungalow

Bungalow

A bungalow is a type of house, with varying meanings across the world. Common features to many of these definitions include being detached, low-rise , and the use of verandahs...

, Italianate

Italianate architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism 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...

, and 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...

. Notable non-residential contributing properties include the Exposition Building (1924), Thompson United Methodist Church (1913-1915), Madison School (1916), firehouse (1930-1931), Bridgeport Bridge (1893), Aetnaville Bridge (1891), "The Marina," Wheeling Island Baseball Park, and "Belle Island Park." It includes the separately listed Wheeling Suspension Bridge

Wheeling Suspension Bridge

The Wheeling Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the main channel of the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia. It was the largest suspension bridge in the world from 1849 until the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge was opened in 1851. It was designed by Charles Ellet Jr., who also worked...

, Harry C. and Jessie F. Franzheim House

Harry C. and Jessie F. Franzheim House

Harry C. and Jessie F. Franzheim House is a historic home located on Wheeling Island at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. It was built in 1897, and is a three-story Shingle style dwelling. It sits on a sandstone foundation...

, and John McLure House

John McLure House

John McLure House, also known as the Hans Phillips House, Lawrence Sands House, and Daniel Zane House, is a historic home located on Wheeling Island at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. It was built between 1853 and 1856, and is a three-story, Federal-style brick dwelling. A two-story rear...

.

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.

External links

• Irwin-Brues House, 201 North Front Street, Wheeling, Ohio, WV: 7 photos, 8 data pages, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Building Survey
• 174 Zane Street (House), Wheeling, Ohio, WV: 10 photos, 4 data pages, and 3 photo caption pages at Historic American Building Survey
• 176 Zane Street (House), Wheeling, Ohio, WV: 6 photos, 4 data pages, and 4 photo caption pages at Historic American Building Survey
• 178 Zane Street (House), Wheeling, Ohio, WV: 5 photos, 4 data pages, and 3 photo caption pages at Historic American Building Survey
• 180 Zane Street (House), Wheeling, Ohio, WV: 6 photos, 5 data pages, and 4 photo caption pages at Historic American Building Survey
• 182 Zane Street (House), Wheeling, Ohio, WV: 9 photos, 5 data pages, and 5 photo caption pages at Historic American Building Survey
• 184 Zane Street (House), Wheeling, Ohio, WV: 7 photos, 5 data pages, and 4 photo caption pages at Historic American Building Survey
• Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Spanning East channel of Ohio River at U.S. Route 40, Wheeling, Ohio, WV: 4 drawings, 56 photos, 31 data pages, 5 photo caption pages, and 10 color transparencies at Historic American Building Survey
• Bridgeport Bridge, Spanning West Channel of Ohio River, U.S. Route 40, Wheeling, Ohio, WV: 3 drawings, 28 photos, 2 data pages, and 6 photo caption pages at Historic American Building Survey