The Philippi Historic District (PHD) is national historic district located at Philippi,

Barbour County, West Virginia Barbour County is a county in North-Central West Virginia West Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 15,465. The county seat is Philippi, which was chartered in 1844. Both county and city were named for Philip P. Ba ...

, USA. It encompasses 113 contributing buildings and one contributing structure dating from the mid-19th century through early 20th century. The district includes the commercial, ecclesiastical, and civic core of the town situated along the

Tygart Valley River The Tygart Valley River — also known as the Tygart River — is a principal tributary of the Monongahela River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed Aug ...

. The PHD includes a number of buildings representative of popular architectural styles including Queen Anne,

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...

, and

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but a ...

. Located within the district are the separately listed

Barbour County Courthouse The Barbour County Courthouse in Philippi, West Virginia, Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia, Barbour County, West Virginia, USA is a monumental public building constructed between 1903 and 1905 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. It d ...

, Philippi B & O Railroad Station,

Philippi Covered Bridge The Philippi Covered Bridge, on the Tygart Valley River, is the main local landmark and historical icon of Philippi, West Virginia, USA. The celebrated bridge was commissioned by the General Assembly of Virginia and constructed in 1852 by ...

, and

Peck-Crim-Chesser House The Peck-Crim-Chesser House is a historic home located at Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia, US. It was built in 1884, and is a large, two-story red brick house on a limestone foundation. It features highly pitched multiple gables and tal ...

. The PHD 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 ...

in 1990.

References

Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Greek Revival architecture in West Virginia Historic districts in Barbour County, West Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Italianate architecture in West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Barbour County, West Virginia Queen Anne architecture in West Virginia Houses in Barbour County, West Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia {{BarbourCountyWV-NRHP-stub