Woodsdale–Edgewood Neighborhood 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 969 contributing buildings and is primarily residential, developed between 1888 and 1945. A number of popular architectural styles are represented including Shingle Style, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival,

American Foursquare The American Foursquare or American Four Square is an American house style popular from the mid-1890s to the late 1930s. A reaction to the ornate and mass-produced elements of the Victorian architecture, Victorian and other Revival styles popul ...

, Colonial Revival and

Bungalow A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is either single-story or has a second story built into a sloping roof (usually with dormer windows), and may be surrounded by wide verandas. The first house in England that was classified as a b ...

style. The district also includes four

Lustron Lustron houses are prefabricated enameled steel houses developed in the post-World War II era United States in response to the shortage of homes for returning G.I.s by Chicago industrialist and inventor Carl Strandlund. Considered low-maintena ...

houses. Notable non-residential buildings include the Edgwood Christian Mission Alliance Church (1932), St. John's Episcopal Chapel (1913), Mount Carmel Monastery (1915) designed by

Frederick F. Faris Frederick F. Faris (1870–1927) was a Wheeling, West Virginia-based architect. Life and career Frederick Fisher Faris was born August 1, 1870, in St. Clairsville, Ohio to Joseph Anderson Faris, an artist, and Mary Elizabeth (Pratt) Faris. The ...

(1870-1927), and Good Shepherd Home (1912). Also located in the district are the separately listed H. C. Ogden House and William Miles Tiernan House. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

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National Register of Historic Places in Wheeling, West Virginia Historic districts in Wheeling, West Virginia Shingle Style architecture in West Virginia Queen Anne architecture in West Virginia Tudor Revival architecture in West Virginia American Foursquare architecture in West Virginia Colonial Revival architecture in West Virginia Bungalow architecture in West Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia {{OhioCountyWV-NRHP-stub