Marlowe Elementary School was built in 1922 as an eight-room school to serve grades 1 through 8 in

Marlowe, West Virginia Marlowe is an unincorporated community on U.S. Route 11 in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States. Sites on the National Register of Historic Places located near Marlowe are: the Charles Downs II House, Harmony Cemetery, Marlowe Consol ...

. The new school allowed a number of

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in the area to be closed. The Marlowe School is a two-story brick building on a concrete base. As originally built there were four rooms on each of the two main levels, with a cafeteria and mechanical rooms in the basement. Each classroom was provided with a coatroom. Windows were concentrated on the front and rear of the building with sparsely fenestrated ends. A central stairway serves all levels. The classrooms retain their original wood wainscoting and much of their original character. One story additions have been added to the rear from the 1970s on. The building presently serves grades K through 3 as a primary school. The school was listed on the

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in 2006 as the Marlowe Consolidated School.

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* School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Schools in Berkeley County, West Virginia Gothic Revival architecture in West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Berkeley County, West Virginia School buildings completed in 1922 1922 establishments in West Virginia {{BerkeleyCountyWV-NRHP-stub