Jefferson Street 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 Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia. The district includes 63 contributing buildings in a residential area of Bluefield known as Oakland Addition, originally platted in 1910. The buildings are primarily single-family residences with a few multiple family dwellings, and one church, the College Avenue Baptist Church. Houses are representative of popular architectural styles from the turn of the 20th century, including

American Four Square The American Foursquare or American Four Square is an American house style popular from the mid-1890s to the late 1930s. A reaction to the ornate and mass-produced elements of the Victorian and other Revival styles popular throughout the last ...

Bungalow A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is either single-story or has a second story built into a sloping roof (usually with dormer windows), and may be surrounded by wide verandas. The first house in England that was classified as a b ...

, Colonial Revival, and Classical Revival. A number of the homes were designed by architect

Alex B. Mahood Alexander Blount Mahood (March 17, 1888 – December 25, 1970) was a Bluefield, West Virginia-based architect. Life and career Mahood was born in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1888. He attended public schools, after which he attended the École ...

. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

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American Foursquare architecture in West Virginia Bungalow architecture in West Virginia Neoclassical architecture in West Virginia Colonial Revival architecture in West Virginia Historic districts in Bluefield, West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Mercer County, West Virginia Victorian architecture in West Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia {{MercerCountyWV-NRHP-stub