Pocahontas County Courthouse and Jail

900C Tenth Ave., Marlinton, West Virginia. County/parish: Pocahontas.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 15, 1994. NRIS 94000724.

2 contributing buildings.

From Wikipedia:

Pocahontas County Courthouse and Jail

Pocahontas County Courthouse and Jail is a historic courthouse and jail located at Marlinton, Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The courthouse was built in 1894, and is a 2 1/2-story, brick, Victorian Romanesque building with a stone raised basement level. It has irregular massing with a central block that has a steep hip roof. The front elevation features two towers, one at each corner. A courthouse annex building was added in 1976. The jail is a two-story brick building in simple Romanesque Style. It was built at the same time as the courthouse as the jailer's residence. A brick two-story shallow hip roofed ell was added in 1926, to house the jail.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86535975

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