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Pocahontas Fuel Company Store and Office Buildings are a historic company store and an office building located at Jenkinjones, McDowell County, West Virginia. Both buildings were designed by architect
The two-story brick company store sits on a stone foundation. It features a brick cornice with a concrete parapet and a concrete
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 ...
and built in 1917. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
History
Born in Glynneath, Wales, Jenkin B. Jones (1841-1916), the namesake for thecoal town
A coal town, also known as a coal camp or patch, is a type of company town or mining community established by the employer, a mining company, which imports workers to the site to work the mineral find. The company develops it and provides residen ...
of Jenkinjones, West Virginia
Jenkinjones is an unincorporated community and coal town in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. It lies on the western flanks of Stone Ridge near the border with Tazewell County, Virginia.
History
It is the location of the Pocahont ...
, founded the Pocahontas Fuel Company
Pocahontas Fuel Company operated mines in the state of Virginia in Boissevain and Amonate, and in West Virginia at Jenkinjones, Bishop, and Itmann. Pocahontas Fuel Company founded the Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company in 1907. In 1956 ...
after consolidating several coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...
operations in 1907. The two buildings were constructed to be durable and also as a symbol of success within the community.
Description
The two-story brick company store sits on a stone foundation. It features a brick cornice with a concrete parapet and a concrete entablature
An entablature (; nativization of Italian , from "in" and "table") is the superstructure of moldings and bands which lies horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals. Entablatures are major elements of classical architecture, and ...
with dentils in the Classical Revival style. The store building housed the store and a post office.
The office is a two-story brick building with a flat roof. It has a bold concrete cornice
In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian ''cornice'' meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a ...
with dentils across the front facade.
See also
*Pocahontas Fuel Company Store (Maybeury, West Virginia)
Pocahontas Fuel Company Store, also known as Norfolk Coal & Coke Company Store and Henderson Market, was a historic Pocahontas Fuel Company company store building located at Maybeury, McDowell County, West Virginia. It was built before 1903, ...
* Pocahontas Fuel Company Store (Switchback, West Virginia)
The Pocahontas Fuel Company Store was a historic Pocahontas Fuel Company company store building located at Switchback, McDowell County, West Virginia. It was designed by architect Alex B. Mahood, and built in 1917. It was a two-story brick buil ...
References
Alex B. Mahood buildings Commercial buildings completed in 1917 Neoclassical architecture in West Virginia Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in McDowell County, West Virginia Company stores in the United States {{McDowellCountyWV-NRHP-stub