Fairmont Normal School Administration Building

United States historic place


Fairmont Normal School Administration Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Administration Building, now Hardway Hall, in 2008
39°28′59″N 80°9′37″W / 39.48306°N 80.16028°W / 39.48306; -80.16028
Area	1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built	1917
Architect	Paul A. Davis III
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	94000216^[1]
Added to NRHP	March 28, 1994

Fairmont Normal School Administration Building is a historic school building located on the campus of Fairmont State University at Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia. It was built between 1915 and 1917, and is a large three-story Classical Revival style building sited atop a hill overlooking Locust Avenue. Its light coated brick exterior walls are ornamented with limestone and terra cotta details. Its front features a portico with eight Ionic order columns with shafts made of Indiana Blue Limestone. The original building measured 265 feet by 65 feet; the west wing was added in 1927.^[2]

The building was renamed Hardway Hall in 1989 for Wendell G. Hardway, a former president of Fairmont State College.^[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Robert E. Crites (December 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Fairmont Normal School Administration Building" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
^ "100th Birthday Celebration for Hardway Hall Set for Oct. 15". Fairmont State University. October 12, 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.