Salem College Administration Building is a historic

school A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes comp ...

administration building located on the campus of

Salem University Salem University is a private for-profit university in Salem, West Virginia. It has about 250 students on campus and about 600 online students that are enrolled in undergraduate as well as graduate programs. The university was founded by the Se ...

at Salem,

Harrison County, West Virginia Harrison County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,921. Its county seat is Clarksburg. Harrison County is part of the Clarksburg, WV Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Indigenous ...

. It was built in 1909–1910, and is 2 1/2-story, stone and brick building with a truncated hipped roof and full basement in the Collegiate Gothic style. It consist of an imposing central tower flanked by two symmetrical wings The wings feature large, two-story, parapet-gabled wall dormers. The roof is topped by small, hipped roof

cupola In architecture, a cupola () is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome. The word derives, via Italian, fro ...

. It 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 1989.

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University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia School buildings completed in 1910 Schools in Harrison County, West Virginia Collegiate Gothic architecture in West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Harrison County, West Virginia University and college administration buildings in the United States Administration Building {{HarrisonCountyWV-NRHP-stub