2 E. Garden Ln., Fairmont, West Virginia. County/parish: Marion.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 26, 2006. NRIS 06000653.
2 contributing buildings.Also known as:
Colonial Apartments, also known as the Kennedy Dairy Barn, is a historic building located at Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia. It is a three-story, gambrel roof building in the Colonial Revival style. It was built about 1900 as a barn and modified to its present form about 1942. Those modifications included adding a stone veneer, two hip roof porches, and the addition of a small end gable entrance portico with a partial return and Tuscan order columns. Also on the property is two-story side gable former milk house. It was converted to two apartment units at the same time the barn was converted to an apartment building.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
In 2009, Fairmont State University converted the building from faculty housing into The Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center, to support the Folklife-Folklore Studies program at FSU.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86535554