Municipal Building (Bluefield, West Virginia)
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Municipal Building, also known as Old Bluefield Municipal Building, is a historic municipal building located at Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia. It was built in 1924, and is a two- to three-story, steel and reinforced concrete Classical Revival-style building. It features a three-story high pedimented central pavilion with four engaged
Ionic order The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian. There are two lesser orders: the Tuscan (a plainer Doric), and the rich variant of Corinthian called the composite or ...
columns. In 1977, the city government of Bluefield moved to its new building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the Bluefield Downtown Commercial Historic District, established in 1987.


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Buildings and structures in Bluefield, West Virginia City halls in West Virginia Neoclassical architecture in West Virginia Government buildings completed in 1924 City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Mercer County, West Virginia Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in West Virginia {{MercerCountyWV-NRHP-stub