Dimmeydale Intensive Level Historic Resource Survey

Avdakov, Steven; Griffin, Deborah; Schmidtke, Lisa

From the Introduction: "The City of Wheeling/ Wheeling Historic Landmark Commission engaged Heritage Architectural Associates (HAA) in September 2020 to complete an Architecture and History Intensive Survey for the Dimmeydale neighborhood of Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. (Fig. 1) The purpose of the survey was to document all properties that were at least 50 years old, regardless of integrity, and to evaluate each property for potential eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. The survey area is bounded by Cypress Avenue on the north, National Road on the east, Veron Avenue on the south, and Wheeling Creek on the west. The survey area consists of approximately 51 acres and contains 177 properties, 173 of which were included in the survey. The Ohio County Survey, conducted in 1990-91, documented 43 of the buildings included in the Dimmeydale Intensive Survey. These include seven buildings along National Road and 36 other buildings scattered throughout the Dimmeydale neighborhood. (APPENDIX A, Table 5) The buildings along National Road are included in the National Road Corridor Historic District (NR 92000874), which was listed in the National Register in 1993. (APPENDIX A, Table 6) HAA completed an Historic Property Inventory Form (HPI) for each resource including photographs, map, narrative description, statement of significance, and National Register evaluation. Relevant information from previously-completed HPI forms and the National Road Corridor Historic District nomination was incorporated into the new HPI forms. The following report summarizes the results of the survey. All work was done according to the West Virginia National Register and Architecture/History Survey Manual (2016), produced by the West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office (WVSHPO) and the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Identification and Evaluation." Project funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant to the State Historic Preservation Office - West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture, and History, administered by the State, Tribal, Local Plans and Grants division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior (grant number P20AF00057).

Dimmeydale Intensive Level Historic Resource Survey

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