Monroe Street East 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 Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district encompasses six contributing buildings. They are a Greek Revival style church built in 1837, a Roman-Tuscan style dwelling dated to 1852 and known as the Paxton-Reed House, and an eclectic 1881 dwelling. Also in the district is a

Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanesque ...

style apartment building (c. 1892) and a set of vernacular post- American Civil War townhouses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 1999, the district was encompassed by 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 ...

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* National Register of Historic Places in Wheeling, West Virginia Greek Revival church buildings in West Virginia Romanesque Revival architecture in West Virginia Historic districts in Wheeling, West Virginia Historic American Buildings Survey in West Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia {{OhioCountyWV-NRHP-stub