Municipal Building, also known as Old Bluefield Municipal Building, is a historic

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located in

Bluefield, West Virginia Bluefield is a city in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 9,658 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Bluefield micropolitan area extending into Virginia, which had a populatio ...

. It was built in 1924, and is a two- to three-story, steel and reinforced concrete

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-style building. It features a three-story high pedimented central pavilion with four engaged

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columns. In 1977, the city government of Bluefield moved to its new building. It was listed on the

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in 1979. It is located in the Bluefield Downtown Commercial Historic District, established in 1987.

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Buildings and structures in Bluefield, West Virginia City halls in West Virginia Neoclassical architecture in West Virginia Government buildings completed in 1924 City and town halls on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Mercer County, West Virginia Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in West Virginia {{MercerCountyWV-NRHP-stub