The Hinton Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located at Hinton,

Summers County, West Virginia Summers County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,959. Its county seat is Hinton. The county was created by an act of the West Virginia Legislature on February 27, 1871, from pa ...

. The original Hinton Historic District is bordered roughly by the

Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century. Led by industrialist Collis P. Huntington, it reached from Virginia's capital city of Richmond ...

line, James Street, 5th Avenue, and Roundhouse. The boundary increase extended the district to include Mill Street. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1984 and revised in 2005. It encompasses 212 contributing buildings, one contributing structure (a railroad water tank), and two contributing objects (veterans' memorials). They include the business and commercial core of Hinton and surrounding residential areas. The buildings are largely two and three story with first floor commercial activities with offices and apartments above. Many of the buildings feature stone trim and some have cast iron store fronts. Residential buildings are representative of popular late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural styles. Notable buildings include the Wagon Wheel Restaurant (1876), Summers County Library, R.R. Flanagan Building (c. 1906), Lowe Furniture Company Building (c. 1905), former National Bank of Summers building, O. Ike Keaton residence (c. 1905), Bluestone Tire Company building (C. 1919), C&O Railway Passenger Station, Y.M.C.A. (c. 1911), First Baptist Church (1913), Hotel McCreery (c. 1907), Ewart-Miller Building (c. 1905), McCreery / Palmer residence, Carnegie Library, Summers County Jail (1870s), and U.S. Post Office (1926, expanded 1960s). Located in the district is the separately listed

Summers County Courthouse The Summers County Courthouse in Hinton, West Virginia, is a red brick Romanesque Revival or late Victorian building, originally constructed in 1875–76. The building was remodeled between 1893 and 1898 by architect Frank Pierce Milburn Frank ...

Gallery

Hotel McCreery 2022b.jpg, Hotel McCreery Temple Street Hinton 2022b.jpg, Hinton Railroad Museum and St. Patrick Church on Temple Street Temple Street Hinton 2022e.jpg, Big Four Building Historic Downtown Hinton.jpg, 213-215 Second Street housed Cheri's Vegan Restaurant, now closed. 213 (left) was built in the 1930s in the

Arts and Crafts A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by one’s hand or by using only simple, non-automated re ...

style and long served as a diner. First Presbyterian Church Hinton 2022.jpg, First Presbyterian Church Hinton High School 2022a.jpg, Hinton High School (now a middle school) Campbell-Flannagan-Murrell House Museum 2022.jpg, Campbell-Flannagan-Murrell House Museum Summers Street Hinton 2022b.jpg, Industrial buildings in the district Hinton Carnegie Library 2022b.jpg, Carnegie Library, now a veterans museum Hinton station 2022d.jpg, Rear of Hinton station

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National Register of Historic Places in Summers County, West Virginia Neoclassical architecture in West Virginia Historic districts in Summers County, West Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Victorian architecture in West Virginia American Foursquare architecture in West Virginia {{SummersCountyWV-NRHP-stub