Cathedral Parish School, also known as Wheeling Catholic Elementary and Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston Chancery, was a historic

elementary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...

building located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. It was built in 1896–1897, to service the St. Joseph Cathedral parish. A gymnasium addition was built in 1939. It is a three-story brick building, with an elevated first floor. It sits on a sandstone base. It features a center square tower with a pyramidal roof and

Late Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

details. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. It is located in the

East Wheeling Historic District East Wheeling Historic District is a national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 300 contributing buildings and one contributing site, including the Monroe Street East Historic District ...

Gallery

File:cathedralparishschool.jpg, Cathedral Parish School (1920s) File:Cathedral Parish School in Wheeling.jpg, During renovation

References

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Buildings and structures in Wheeling, West Virginia Landmarks in West Virginia Gothic Revival architecture in West Virginia Schools in Ohio County, West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Wheeling, West Virginia School buildings completed in 1897 Catholic schools in West Virginia Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in West Virginia Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston 1896 establishments in West Virginia {{OhioCountyWV-NRHP-stub