Colonial Apartments
National Register of Historic Places

Colonial Apartments

Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia
Listed
July 25, 2006
Type
Building
Period
Colonial
Ref No.
06000653

About this property

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.

Location

2 E. Garden Ln.
Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia
39.48339, -80.16480

Categories

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Sources

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Nearby Historic Sites

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Fleming-Watson Historic District
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0.9 mi
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When was Colonial Apartments listed on the National Register?

Colonial Apartments was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 25, 2006.

What type of historic resource is Colonial Apartments?

Colonial Apartments is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Colonial Apartments?

The period of significance for Colonial Apartments is recorded as the colonial era.

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