Monroe Street East Historic District

Monroe Street East Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
The Church of God and Saints of Christ, a core part of the district
Location	12th and Byron Sts., Wheeling, West Virginia
Coordinates	40°4′12″N 80°43′9″W
Area	1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built	1837
Architect	Klieves, Kraft & Co.; Wells, E.W.
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Other, Romanesque, Romano-Tuscan
NRHP reference No.	80004036
Added to NRHP	February 12, 1980

Monroe Street East Historic District is a national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district encompasses six contributing buildings. They are a Greek Revival style church built in 1837, a Roman-Tuscan style dwelling dated to 1852 and known as the Paxton-Reed House, and an eclectic 1881 dwelling. Also in the district is a Richardsonian Romanesque style apartment building (c. 1892) and a set of vernacular post-American Civil War townhouses.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 1999, the district was encompassed by the East Wheeling Historic District.

External links

• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. WV-200, "Paxton-Reed House, 100 Twelfth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV", 7 photos, 1 color transparency, 6 data pages, 2 photo caption pages