"Edemar", also known as Stifel Fine Arts Center, is a historic house and national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

located at Wheeling,

Ohio County, West Virginia Ohio County is a county located in the Northern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia, and forms part of the Wheeling metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,425. Its county seat is Wheeling. The county was f ...

. The district includes two contributing buildings and two contributing structures. The main house was built between 1910 and 1914, and is a -story, brick-and-concrete

Classical Revival Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassic ...

mansion with a steel frame. The front facade features a full-width

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with pediment supported by six

Corinthian order The Corinthian order (, ''Korinthiakós rythmós''; ) is the last developed and most ornate of the three principal classical orders of Ancient Greek architecture and Ancient Roman architecture, Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric or ...

columns. Also on the property are a contributing brick, tiled-roofed three-bay carriage barn/garage; fish pond; and formal garden. The Stifel family occupied the home until 1976, when the family gave it to the Oglebay Institute to be used as the Stifel Fine Arts Center. It was listed on the

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in 1992.

References

External links

Oglebay Institute website
Houses in Wheeling, West Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Neoclassical architecture in West Virginia Houses completed in 1914 National Register of Historic Places in Wheeling, West Virginia Historic districts in Wheeling, West Virginia 1914 establishments in West Virginia {{OhioCountyWV-NRHP-stub