<p>Bank of Newark Building is a historic bank building located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1845 and is a three-story, gable-roofed brick building with a symmetrical five-bay facade and a three-story ell to the rear. It is in a restrained form of the Greek Revival style. The front facade features a portico and massive pilasters added sometime after 1929.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, a second location of the popular Wilmington, DE restaurant Catherine Rooney&#39;s moved into the original section of this building.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Southern Methodist Church Building, now known and used as the Upshur County Historical Society&#39;s History Center Museum, is an historic former church building located at 81 W. Main Street in Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia. It was built in 1856 with final modifications in the 1890s, and is a simple rectangular frame building. The original structure measures 45 feet by 33 feet in the Greek Revival style. In 1891, a 9 feet by 14 feet vestibule was added, along with a three-story bell tower. In 1968, it was sold to the Church of Christ and then sold to the Upshur County Historical Society in 1986.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Buffalo Church is a historic Methodist church located near Palestine, Wirt County, West Virginia, United States. It was built between 1884 and 1886, and is a one-story, oblong log structure with exterior weatherboarding of beech wood and interior finish of wood boards on walls and ceiling. It is painted white on the inside and outside. Also on the property is the church cemetery, and three outbuildings: two pit toilets and a storage building that were constructed by workers associated with the Work Projects Administration.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Green Mansion is a historic home and later commercial building located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1882 and is an oblong, three-story, brick building with a flat roofline. It features a green serpentine facade with a two-story bay window at each end, joined in the center by an ornate two-tiered porch featuring paneled columns. It was originally built as a two-story residence and expanded in the early 20th century when it began being used for commercial purposes.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>In 2019, the Newark City Council approved a controversial plan to build a seven-story Hyatt Place hotel on the site of the Green Mansion. The rear of the mansion was demolished, while the front is planned to be incorporated into the new hotel. The project was delayed and scaled back due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but construction began around the beginning of 2022.</p><br>
<p>Ruble Church is a historic church at the junction of CR 34/1 and 34/2 in Burning Springs, Wirt County, West Virginia. It was built in 1854, and is a one-story, rectangular, gable-roofed log structure measuring 15 ft by 25 ft. Also on the property is the church cemetery, in which the oldest graves are dated to 1857–1858.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The church was demolished in September 2020. As of November 2020, it is being reconstructed on the same spot using some of the original logs.</p><br>
<p>Old Bethany Church, also known as Old Bethany Church of Christ and Old Meetinghouse of the Bethany, is a historic Disciples of Christ church located at Main and Church Streets in Bethany, Brooke County, West Virginia. It was built in 1852, and is a two bay by five bay, brick meeting house-style building on a fieldstone and sandstone foundation. It is the second church building on this site and notable in the Disciples of Christ for its association with Alexander Campbell .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Jobs Temple is a historic Methodist church building located near Glenville, Gilmer County, West Virginia. It was built between 1860 and 1866, and is a building constructed of poplar log, measuring 18 feet by 24 feet. The building was renovated between 1928 and 1936. Adjacent to the church is Jobs Temple Cemetery, containing 122 graves.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>John Wesley Methodist Church, also known as First Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist church on E. Foster Street in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was built in 1820, and is a two-story, brick meeting house building with Greek Revival style design elements. It originally measures 58 feet long by 47 feet wide. In 1835, a vestibule addition added 10 feet to the length. The interior features a "slave gallery." During the Battle of Lewisburg, a cannonball struck the southwest corner and the repairs remain visible.</p><br>
<p>John Weir, a brickmason and architect, is traditionally accepted to have been the architect for the 1820 building. An 1835 addition was by John W. Dunn, also a brickmason and architect. Dunn is credited with bringing Greek Revival architecture to the area by this work. According to the 1974 NRHP nomination, the building "remains one of the county&#39;s most stately structures".</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Tabor Baptist Church, also known as Big Levels Baptist Church, Lewisburg Baptist Church, and Mount Tabor Church, is a historic Baptist church at Court and Foster Streets in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was built in 1832, and is a -story, brick meeting house building with Gothic style design elements. It measures 36 feet long by 40 feet wide and sits on a thick limestone foundation. It features a 10 feet by 16 feet frame tower, topped with an octagonal cap and belfry.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Old Stone Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1783, Rev. John McCue arrived in what became Greenbrier Country of West Virginia. He found fifteen or twenty Presbyterians worshiping in a log house erected on land belonging to Rev. Jacob Osborne, probably the first Presbyterian minister in this section. Rev. McCue organized the church of Fort Union, which name was shortly changed to Lewisburg in honor of Col. Andrew Lewis. Rev. McCue also organized the churches of Spring Creek and Union or "Good Hope," thereafter called "the three cornerstones of Presbyterianism" in this section.</p><br>
<p>In 1792, Rev. Benjamin P. Grigsby succeeded Mr. McCue as pastor. The Old Stone church was built in 1796 under Grigsbys pastorate. Then occurred the first mention of a womans Christian service, within the bounds of the Synod of West Virginia. Mrs. Agnes Stuart (nee Agnes Lewis, of the line of Col. Andrew Lewis), wife of Col. John Stuart, was the principal subscriber to this building, she and her brother, Colonel Lewis, giving. No doubt this woman&#39;s interest inspired others who gave assistance in other ways. Her husband, having already liberally subscribed, gave the land on which the church was built, and being an artisan in stone work, he engraved a stone which was placed over the front entrance. Mr. Grigsby went back to Eastern Virginia shortly after the erection of the church and there was a vacancy for ten years.</p><br>
<p>Rev. John McElhenny came in 1808, and served the church for over sixty years starting in 1808. When he began his work, the church was very weak and years after, his granddaughter writes of having heard him refer to his early work at Union and Lewisburg, and says that he would have given up in utter despair but for the sense of the fact that there were a number of pious women, mothers and wives, in his church, whose prayers were for a revival, and for the conversion of their husbands and sons. This revival came after a slow growth of twenty years, when between ninety and a hundred were added to the church roll, and gave it an impetus forward.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, it served as a hospital for both Union and Confederate forces. The pews of the church were removed so that more cots for soldiers could be brought in. After the Union victory at the Battle of Lewisburg, a trench was built by the side of the church to bury the Confederate dead. After the war, the soldiers were reburied at the Confederate Cemetery at Lewisburg.</p><br>
<p>In 1872, the "Ladies&#39; Foreign Missionary Society" of the Old Stone Church, was organized and a daughter of Rev. McElhenny, Mrs. Elizabeth Fry, was the first President and Mrs Susan Estill, Treasurer.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The related Stone Manse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and fittings</h2><br>
<p>A two-story, rectangular building was constructed in 1796. This building was made of native limestone, gathered from the nearby land, and placed in the walls in their original shape and size. Tradition states that when the stones of this building were collected, the women and boys carried the sand in sacks, on horses, from Greenbrier River, a distance of 4 miles, to make the mortar to build this stone edifice.</p><br>
<p>An addition was constructed in 1830, making the building 75 x in size. It features an open cupola belfry.</p><br>
<h2>Burials</h2><br>
<p>Henry M. Mathews, Governor of West Virginia</p><br>
<p>The Trinity Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as Trinity Methodist Church, was a historic Methodist Episcopal church at 420 Ben Street in Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia. It was built in 1902, and was a modest late-Victorian Gothic-Romanesque style brick structure. It was a two-story rectangular building with a slate covered gable roof. It featured a three-story, square bell tower with an open belfry.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Since that time, it has been demolished.</p><br>
<p>African Zion Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church at 4104 Malden Drive in Malden, Kanawha County, West Virginia. It is within the Malden Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story frame structure built atop a stone foundation. It has a gable roof topped by a wooden bell tower. This is considered the mother church of African-American Baptists in West Virginia, many of whom migrated there after the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Among its noted members were "Father" Lewis Rice, founder of the church and a leader of the early African-American community in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia, and Booker T. Washington.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Ebenezer Chapel  is a historic chapel on Ohio Avenue, south at Hillview Drive in Marmet, West Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>Origins</h2><br>
<p>The chapel was built in 1836 by slaves owned by Marmet&#39;s first settler, Leonard Morris. Mr. Morris originally named the area Elizaville. By 1848, the building was owned by Luke Wilcox, a local farmer and manager of a local salt works. The chapel was for many years part of a circuit traveled by preachers of the United Methodist Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<h2>Civil War</h2><br>
<p>During the American Civil War (1861-1865) the chapel served as a military headquarters and as a hospital for Union soldiers. Camp Piatt (present day Belle, WV) sits immediately across the river where today DuPont sits.</p><br>
<p>Jacob Conrad Edelmann was a German immigrant who worked on the river in Brownstown (present day Marmet). While under Confederate occupation in the Fall of 1862, Mr. Edelmann made extra money grinding grain for the Confederates. In 1863, Jacob Conrad Edelmann was arrested by Union soldiers and locked inside the chapel for 3 days. He begged for foreign protection, as he was not a United States citizen, and was released on these grounds. After the war, he went on to become a US citizen.</p><br>
<h2>Saved from Demolition</h2><br>
<p>Ebenezer Chapel was saved from destruction by a committee led by local historian and teacher, Russell Hansford. The West Virginia Turnpike was being constructed at the time and the state wanted to demolish the church. Russell Hansford added the chapel to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, thus preserving it for generations to come.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>Ebenezer Chapel is the oldest structure in Marmet (and the Kanawha Valley.) It is the only remaining link between today&#39;s generation and the first settlers of the area. It is currently the home of the Elizaville Historical Society and hosts an annual Civil War weekend.</p><br>
<p>Good Shepherd Church, also known as Good Shepherd Mission, is a historic Roman Catholic church at SR 61 SW of East Bank Coalburg, Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was built about 1880, and consists of a five bay, one-story ell with a steeply pitched front gabled roof. It sits on a high raised limestone foundation. Also on the property is an ornate Celtic cross that rests on earth from County Kerry, Ireland, and was placed there in 1912. The church is significant in part due to its association with Irish and Italian immigrant miners during the early years of the church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>St. Mark&#39;s Episcopal Church, also known as Bangor Parish, is a historic Episcopal church at 405-407 B Street in St. Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA. It was built in 1847, and is a one-story brick building in the Gothic Revival style. The church has a rectangular floor plan with a front vestibule and entrance through a central tower.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, the building and surrounding property were occupied by Union forces. They burned the parsonage and damaged the interior of the church. After the war the building had to be closed for a period of time while only temporary repairs were made. The Federal government paid restitution for the damages in 1915, and the building was restored to good condition.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>St. Bernard Church and Cemetery is a historic Roman Catholic church and cemetery near Camden, Lewis County, West Virginia. It was built in 1909, and is a rectangular gable-roofed, one-story frame structure in the Gothic Revival style. It features a two-story entrance bell tower. The property includes the church cemetery; it includes the grave of Father Thomas Aquinas Quirk . Most of the settlers in the region, including the congregants of the church, were of Irish descent.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Harmony Grove Meeting House, also known as Harmony Grove Church, is a historic church off I-79 in Harmony Grove, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was built in 1854, and is a small, one-story wood-frame building. It measures 20 feet wide and 50 feet long. It sits on a foundation of rough-cut stone blocks. It is the oldest unaltered church building in Monongalia County.</p><br>
<p>The church was built by Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists. The deed for the land apportioned one Sunday per month to each denomination, leaving the fourth and fifth Sundays for "any Protestant Minister of good standing in his own church". The founding documents specifically prohibited Roman Catholics, which was not unusual for that era. Several denominations used the church until 1910, when Methodist circuit preachers became the main users. The church was also used as a school during the week, primarily from 1864 through 1871. The church was closed in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Phillips Mill Complex is a historic mill complex located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. The complex includes a late 18th-century mill owners house, a circa mid-19th-century millers house, and a grist mill that was initially constructed in 1795. The mill is a banked, -story, gable-roofed building that is constructed of uncoursed rubble fieldstone at its basement and first floor levels, and of weatherboarded frame at its second story and attic levels.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Lynch Chapel United Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located near Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was built in 1902, and is a small, one-story, rectangular church in the Late Gothic Revival style. It features a steeple bell tower with a pyramidal roof with folk Victorian accents such as delicate brackets and scrollwork.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys Orthodox Church, originally known as Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Russian Orthodox Church, is a historic church of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese located at the intersection of West Park and Holland Avenues in Westover, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was also known as St. Michael the Archangel Church and St. Marys Capatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church.</p><br>
<p>The building itself was built in the 19th century and originally housed the Westover Methodist Church. It was later sold to the Orthodox Church, at which time it underwent significant alterations to bring it to the architectural standards necessary for an Orthodox house of worship. It was dedicated as an Orthodox church on September 8, 1923 (hence its dedication to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, which feast day falls on that date). It is a yellow brick building on a high foundation of textured concrete block.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Womens Christian Temperance Union Community Building, also known as the WCTU Building, is a historic building at 160 Fayette Street in Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was built in 1922 by the Womans Christian Temperance Union, and is a detached, brick, four-story plus basement structure in the Classical Revival style. It features a smooth-cut stone cornice topped by a balustrade. The interior has a two-level basement that houses a large gymnasium. The building also houses office space, meeting rooms, private apartments, and recreational facilities.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is located in the Downtown Morgantown Historic District, listed in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Ambrose Chapel is a historic Methodist chapel located at Stotlers Crossroads, Morgan County, West Virginia. The land was deeded for a free meeting house for anyone who preached the gospel of Jesus Christ, in 1797 by  Henry Ambrose. The original building was a log structure and was later replaced. The current Chapel was built in 1851 and is a -story rectangular building with hewn log framing, stone foundation, clapboard siding, and metal roof. Also on the property is a cemetery with over 300 burials dating from the early 19th century to about 1945. During the American Civil War it was used as a Confederate field hospital in January, 1862 during Stonewall Jackson&#39;s Bath Romney Campaign.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Old Judy Church, also known as Old Log Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church building located near Petersburg, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It was built between 1836 and &#39;38, and is a rectangular hewn-log building measuring 24 feet wide and 28 feet deep. It was abandoned in 1910 and rededicated in 1936 by a local Methodist congregation. Today, it is used as a community center for social gatherings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Old Probst Church, also known as Propst Lutheran Church, is a historic Lutheran church located near Brandywine, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It was built about 1887, and is a rectangular frame building with clapboard siding on a cut stone foundation. The church was in use until 1920, then renovated starting in 1968 for use as a community center. The surrounding property includes the site of the first church, built about 1769. A second log church building was removed from the site in 1885, and used as a house, and later a barn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Huntersville Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church on CR 21 at WV 39 in Huntersville, Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It was built in 1854, and is a two-story, rectangular frame building, two bays wide and three bays deep. It features a three-story bell tower centered on the front facade and added in 1896. The second floor was added at the same time by Huntersville Masonic Lodge Number 65 for use as a lodge hall.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Baily House is a historic home located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1835 and is a -story L-shaped frame dwelling with a three-bay front facade. It was probably constructed as a single-family dwelling that may have been formerly connected to a row of matching houses. Some believe that it was moved from Baltimore to Newark in the mid-19th century. It was the residence of Harriet Baily, who headed the Art Department of the University of Delaware from 1928 until 1956.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church at 450 Randolph Avenue in Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia, United States. It was originally built in 1894 and 1895 after designs prepared by the Baltimore architect Charles E. Cassell. In 1921, an Akron plan Sunday School building was added to the north by Clarence L. Harding of Washington D. C. The building consists of a nave, an engaged tower, and a gable roofed structure located perpendicular to the nave. It is built of a granular conglomerate stone consisting of large, transparent quartz crystals bound in clay or silica. The style is Gothic, with Romanesque and eclectic influences.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Glady Presbyterian Church and Manse is a historic Presbyterian church and parsonage at the junction of Randolph Ave. and 1st Street in Glady, Randolph County, West Virginia. The church was built in 1905, and is a Late Gothic Revival style building. It sits on a stone pier foundation, has wood drop siding and a standing seam metal, front gable roof with exposed, curved rafter ends under the eaves. It features a pyramidal steeple. The manse was built in 1908, and is a simple, two-story, American Foursquare building on a concrete block foundation and a hipped roof. Also on the property is a privy built by the Works Progress Administration about 1935.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Tygarts Valley Church, also known as Tygarts Valley Presbyterian Church, is a Presbyterian church on USA Routes 219/250 in Huttonsville, Randolph County, West Virginia. It was built in 1883 in a wooden Gothic Revival architectural style on a sandstone foundation. The church measures 61 by and features a 105 ft spire.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Philadelphia architectural firm of Isaac Purcell designed the building. Bridge builder Lemuel Chenoweth was responsible for the construction. The colorful windows, are rolled cathedral glass, imported from Scotland.</p><br>
<p>Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at 820 Clay Street in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1887 and was a two-story, stucco building in a vernacular interpretation of the Gothic Revival style. It was one of three black churches in Parkersburg and was the oldest black church building in west-central West Virginia. The church was located in a neighborhood of late 19th-century wood-frame houses only a block from downtown.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It is presumed to have been demolished or moved since then.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church at 813 Market Street in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1871, and is a two-story, three by six-bay, brick church in the Italianate style, which was popular at the time. It has a central steeple on the front facade and several rear additions. It is topped by a gable roof trimmed by an arched corbel table and corner turret. This congregation was founded in 1817 and built their first church in 1837. First Baptist was built on that site.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and it is a contributing property to the Avery Street Historic District, which was designated and listed on the National Register in 1986.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church, also known as the Calvary Temple Evangelical Church and St. Patrick&#39;s Priory Church, is a historic church at 946 Market Street in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1894, and is a two-story, brick and stone church building in a combined Romanesque / Gothic Revival style. It features a corner bell tower.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and it is a contributing property to the Avery Street Historic District, which was designated and listed on the National Register in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Since 2016, the church building has been home to St. Patrick&#39;s Priory Church, a congregation of the Missionary Diocese of All Saints in the Anglican Church in North America.</p><br>
<p>Henry Logan Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church at Ann & 6th Streets in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1891, and is a brick and stone church building in a vernacular Romanesque style. It features three round arched stained glass windows on the front facade and a square, pyramidal roofed corner tower.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>St. Francis Xavier Church is a historic church at 532 Market Street in Parkersburg, West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>This church was built in 1869 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>St. Francis Xavier is one of the four original churches of the Diocese of Wheeling. St. Xavier is also the oldest church building in Parkersburg. The church was completed and dedicated on October 2, 1870.</p><br>
<h2>Early Catholic History of Wood County, West Virginia</h2><br>
<p>Wood County was originally part of the state of Virginia. The first Catholic family to settle in Wood County was the Joseph family who arrived around 1815. They settled in the southern part of the county near Belleville, some 10 miles south of Parkersburg. They became the nucleus for a small Catholic settlement that developed in this area. The Rev. James Reid of the Diocese of Cincinnati, Ohio, began making missionary visits to this settlement about 1835. On June 4, 1836, Father Reid baptized Henry Joseph and Daniel Wigal. These were the first recorded Catholic baptisms in Wood County.</p><br>
<p>Richard Vincent Whelan was consecrated Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, on March 21, 1841, and in September 1841 visited with the Catholic families living in Wood County. The bishop was determined to establish a church and to place a priest in residence as soon as it was practical. By this time the Northwest Turnpike (US 50) was completed to Parkersburg, and the Staunton Pike (State Route 47) was nearly complete. The B & O railroad had also begun building a railroad line to Parkersburg. These developments brought an influx of Irish Catholic immigrants who were predominantly employed on these public works to the area. In the USA Catholic Directory for the year 1849 Bishop Whelan states: "Parkersburg-a neat brick church is being erected at this point, which many circumstances indicate as likely to become prominent on the Ohio River."</p><br>
<h2>Construction of the first church</h2><br>
<p>On June 1, 1845 Bishop Whelan appointed Father Austin Grogan to minister to the Catholics in Parkersburg and Wood County. On April 28, 1847 Bishop Whelan purchased a lot on Market Street for $306.00, payable in three installments, for the purpose of building Parkersburg&#39;s first Catholic Church. Construction on the first church began and the cornerstone was laid on October 27, 1849. A small brick church was built at a cost of $1600.00, with funds provided by the European community through the Propagation of the Faith Society. By April 1850 the church was sufficiently completed and dedicated. Twelve families constituted the charter congregation. Father Robert Lawrence was appointed pastor and took up residence in Parkersburg as its first pastor. On July 19, 1850 the Diocese of Wheeling was created being partitioned from the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia.</p><br>
<h2>Construction of the present church</h2><br>
<p>In 1858 additional lots were purchased on Market Street for a school and rectory. Father Henry Parke, a protégé of Bishop Whelan, was appointed pastor and the parish had 303 members. Seeing education as a means of breaking the cycle of poverty that gripped his parishioners Father Parke opened a school for boys in the parish in 1859. This was followed in 1864 with the establishment of an academy for girls under the direction of the Sisters of the Visitation. In 1859, the parish name was changed from Saint Mary&#39;s to St. Francis Xavier. The Civil War soon erupted though and the western counties of Virginia seceded to form the new state of West Virginia on June 20, 1863. At the conclusion of the Civil War Father Parke and the congregation began making plans to build a larger church to replace the original church which had become inadequate to meet the needs of the growing Catholic population. Patrick Charles Keely of New York, a prominent Irish-Catholic architect was selected to design the new St. Francis Xavier. Keely designed an imposing Romanesque revival structure with a bell tower 200 feet in height. Joseph Deris from Wheeling, W.V. was employed as chief carpenter. Actual construction began in August 1867. The pace of construction slowed for an 18-month period due to the difficulty in obtaining quality building materials following the Civil War. On May 9, 1869, the cornerstone was laid for the church and the pace of work quickened with a large force of labor employed on the project. On October 2, 1870, the church was finished and dedicated. The final cost of its construction was $59,930.05.</p><br>
<h2>Church murals</h2><br>
<p>The murals of St. Francis Xavier Church have been called "the most significant examples of ecclesiastical art in West Virginia today" by the West Virginia Department of History and Culture. The murals are noteworthy because of their three-dimensional, bas-relief style also known as tromp loeil painting. The artist was Daniel Muller of Munich, Germany who came from New York City. Muller had painted other churches designed by Patrick Keely. Mullers most noted work before St. Francis Xavier was the Church of the Gesu in Montreal, Canada another Keely designed church. Today St. Francis Xavier parish has over 375 families and a parish population of over 1000 persons. St. Monica parish in nearby Lubeck, composed of 42 families, shares staff with St. Xavier. The parish supports two Catholic schools. Parkersburg Catholic Elementary School serves pre-school through grade 5. Parkersburg Catholic High School serves students in grades 6 through 12. Father John Rice is the current pastor of the parish.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church Rectory is a historic church rectory at 430 Juliana Street in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It is joined to the Trinity Episcopal Church located at 424 Juliana St., by a newer wing It was built in 1863, and is a -story, painted brick building in the Second Empire style. It features a concave profile mansard roof.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The former US Post Office, also known as the US Post Office/Federal Building, is an historic red brick post office building located at 430 South Spring Street in downtown Burlington, North Carolina. Built in 1936, it was designed in a mixture of the Classical Revival and Moderne or Art Deco styles by architect R. Stanley Brown who worked under Louis A. Simon, head of the Office of the Supervising Architect.</p><br>
<p>In the buildings lobby are two wall murals by WPA artist Arthur L. Bairnsfather, which commemorate Burlingtons history as a textile manufacturing center.</p><br>
<p>Since November 3, 1987, the building has been owned by Roche Biomedical Laboratories, Inc., a subsidiary of Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.</p><br>
<p>On September 23, 1988, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is located in the Downtown Burlington Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Old College Historic District is a national historic district located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It consists of six contributing buildings: Old College, Recitation Hall, Recitation Annex, Alumni Hall, Mechanical Hall, and Elliott House. These buildings formed the nucleus, and until the 20th century, the entire campus of Delaware College.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The New Castle Ice Piers are historic ice breaks located at New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware. The seven stone piers were constructed between 1803 and 1882. Each pier consists of an outer shell of finished granite blocks with an inner core of rubble.</p><br>
<p>They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The ice piers have also been designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers.</p><br>
<p>The Ninth Square Historic District encompasses a historically diverse and well-preserved part of the commercial area of Downtown New Haven, Connecticut. The district is bounded by Church, Court, State, and Crown Streets, and is centered on the intersection of Chapel and Orange Streets. The buildings in the district are mostly late-19th and early 20th commercial buildings, and includes a number of commercial buildings from the first half of the 19th century, a rarity in most of Connecticut&#39;s urban downtown areas. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Ninth Square takes its name from an early division of New Haven, when leaders of the New Haven Colony created a town plan of nine large squares in 1637, centered on the one now housing the New Haven Green. Because the ninth square was located closest to the colonys harbor, it was the first to develop a significant commercial presence. In the 1820s, the Farmington Canal was routed near the district, spurring further commercial development. The conversion of the canal right-of-way to railroad use intensified the areas commercial development in the second half of the 19th century. All of this resulted in a significant diversity of styles in the commercial buildings seen, generally reflecting architectural styles popular at the time of their construction. The area declined after World War II, but has been spared from destruction in urban renewal activities of the mid-20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Ninth Square has been at the center of New Haven&#39;s cultural renaissance, densification and renewal over the last decade.</p><br>
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<p>Buffalo Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church located near Willis, Floyd County, Virginia. It was the first of the 5 "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress. It was built in 1929, and is a rock-faced frame building with a nave plan and front and rear transepts. The nave measures 33 feet wide and 80 feet long. It has a steeply-pitched gable roof covered with standing seam sheet metal. The contributing Cemetery has a continuous wall of mortared quartzitic fieldstones, matching the church exterior.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Dinwiddie Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church located near Hillsville, Carroll County, Virginia. It was one of the six "rock churches" founded by Bob Childress It was built in 1948, and is a white quartz rock-faced frame building. The main block is front-gabled with nave plan and Gothic-style tower at the front, through which the edifice is entered. The tower has corner parapets with crenellations of jagged, light-colored stone fragments between each corner. Attached to the main block is a 1-story, front-gabled addition. The contributing cemetery is enclosed by white quartz pillars connected by black pipes.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Westover Church is a historic church located 5 mi west of Charles City off Virginia State Route 5 in Charles City, Virginia, United States. It was built in 1731 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Theodorick Bland of Westover, Walter Aston, and William Byrd I are buried near the original site of the Westover Church. The tomb of Benjamin Harrison IV has also been reported to be on the grounds.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Between 1611 and 1613, as the colonists moved west from Jamestown, several small parishes were formed, Weyanoke, Wallingford, and Wilmington, among others. These parishes later merged and became Westover Parish in 1625. In 1724 Westover Parish became and remains coterminous with Charles City County.</p><br>
<p>The predecessor of the existing Westover Church was constructed between 1630 and 1637 on the grounds at Westover. The present sanctuary was completed circa 1730 at its present site on Herring Creek about 1 ½ miles north of the Westover mansion.</p><br>
<p>The ending of support by public taxation for the Church at the start of the American Revolution in 1776, followed by the disestablishment of the Church of England in America in 1784 resulted in a period of decline. Westover Church was finally abandoned in 1803, and later even used as a barn for a period, during the three decades that services of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Virginia lapsed completely in Charles City County.</p><br>
<p>However, in about 1833 religious services were revived by a missionary to the county, the Reverend Parke Farley Berkeley. At this time the Church structure was repaired and restored, principally through the efforts of the Harrison family of nearby Berkley Plantation and the Carters of Shirley Plantation a few miles west.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War the church was badly damaged by Federal troops, who used the church as a stable for their horses. Following the war, services were restored in 1867 and Westover Church has been used faithfully ever since.</p><br>
<p>Worshipers at Westover have included farmers, plantation owners, slaves, as well as US Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Theodore Roosevelt.</p><br>
<p>Delevan Baptist Church, also known as First Baptist Church and First Colored Baptist Church, is a historic African-American Baptist church building located at 632 W. Main Street in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built in 1883, and is a one-story, three bay by six bay, Victorian Romanesque style brick church. It sits on a raised basement and features with a square projecting central tower topped by a large octagonal lantern on a square base, both of wood.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located in the Fifeville and Tonsler Neighborhoods Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Crockett&#39;s Cove Presbyterian Church, also known as Cove Brick Church, is a historic Presbyterian church located near Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia. The church was built in 1858, and is a small rectangular, Greek Revival style brick church building. The church served as a hospital following the Battle of Cove Mountain.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church in Wytheville, Virginia, United States. The church was built between 1854 and 1857, and is a Classical Revival style brick church building on a limestone foundation. The front facade features a pedimented portico with a full entablature supported by four monumental Doric order columns of parged brick. Atop the slate roof is an octagonal cupola with arcaded belfry. Attached to the church is a two-story, brick parish hall constructed in 1907, and a large, two-story office wing constructed in 1954.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Lutheran Church and Cemetery is a historic Evangelical Lutheran church and cemetery and national historic district near Wytheville, Virginia, United States. The church was built in 1854 and is a rectangular, three bay by two bay, frame church sheathed in weatherboard. It measures 45 feet by 55 feet, has a gable roof, and sits on a limestone basement. The auditorium has a gallery. The adjacent cemetery includes a notable group of</p><br>
<p>approximately 30 early-19th century, German-style monuments.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery is a historic Evangelical Lutheran cemetery and national historic district located near Speedwell, Wythe County, Virginia. The cemetery includes approximately 250–300 total gravestones. Forty two of the stones have dates ranging from the 1790s to 1840, but all were carved between about 1835 to 1840. It is likely that a skilled carver moved to the area in the mid-1830s and provided stones for many graves, which formerly had been marked with improvised stone or wooden markers, then completed his work by 1840. The thick sandstone markers are Germanic stones with surviving inscriptions.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Christ Episcopal Church, also known as Christ Church; Big Stone Gap, is a historic Episcopal church located at 100 Clinton Avenue in Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Virginia. It was built in 1892, and is a cruciform frame church. It is covered with weatherboard and the hipped roof has asphalt shingles. The interior features Gothic style details. Christ Church was organized as a congregation in October 1890 and is one of the oldest in this area.</p><br>
<p>Designed by T. Buckler Chequior of Baltimore, construction of the building began in March 1892 at a cost of $2300. The church was consecrated on May 7, 1892. Red barn paint was donated by J. K. Taggart, whose family still supplies the distinctive red color.</p><br>
<p>The altar was donated by the Nelson family from a mid-nineteenth century church in Restburg, VA. In 1915, the choir room in the southwest corner was added for $91. The second room was added in 1917. In 1942, the sanctuary and porch were enlarged, and the Parish Hall was built in 1964.</p><br>
<p>In 1987, the prayer rails were made from the original altar rails by J. Phelps Walker of Richmond, VA, father of Paxton Allgyer and given in memory of her mother, Josephine K. Walker. The chairs at the altar were given in memory of Margaret and Randolph Parker by their daughter, Emily Kendig of Richmond, VA. The vigil candles were given by Joan Short in memory of her parents, Abner and Madeline Boyd and in honor of the Canon 9 ministry of Rev. Ray Moore. The antique-cabinet above the vigil candles is from a British Anglican church and was donated by Pat Miller and Bill Miller of Abingdon. The Aumbry was donated by the Rev. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Wheless, Jr.</p><br>
<p>Designated a Virginia Historic Landmark on April 18, 1989, Christ Church was subsequently listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Virginia City Church is a historic church located on Bull Run Road, near the small town of St. Paul, in Wise County, of southwestern Virginia. It is situated in the Appalachian Mountains / Blue Ridge Mountains chans. It was built about 1895, and is a small, one-room wood-frame vernacular church structure. It has a front gable roof and walls now covered with weatherboard. The rectangular building measures 20 feet by 32 feet.</p><br>
<p>It was built by the Virginia City coal camp residents on land donated by the Russell Creek Coal Company. The building also served the surrounding local community as its first public schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>It was added to and listed on the National Register of Historic Places (maintained by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior) in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Old Stone Church  is a historic church at 304 E. Piccadilly Street in Winchester, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The church meeting house was constructed in 1788. Upon its completion, local Presbyterians began worshipping in the building. In 1800, the Winchester Presbytery officially established the congregation as the "Presbyterian Church in Winchester." The first pastor was the Rev. Dr. William Hill. Hill was the pastor of Daniel Morgan, and gave his funeral sermon.</p><br>
<p>The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
