Wheeling Historic District, also known as the Wheeling Central Business District, is a national
historic district located at
Wheeling,
Ohio County, West Virginia. The district includes 205 contributing buildings in the
central business district of Wheeling. It includes the site of the original location of Fort Henry. The buildings are representative of a number of popular architectural styles from the early-19th century through the present including
Greek Revival and
Late Victorian. The District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]
Two views of Charles Bates' National Bank of West Virginia, later home to the W.M. Marsh Drug Company, built 1914-15 in the Wheeling Central Business District. At left is the original structure as depicted in a postcard ca. 1915, and at right is the building in 2016, shorn of its elaborate entablature.