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Colonial Apartments (Fairmont, West Virginia)

Coordinates: 39°29′0″N 80°9′54″W / 39.48333°N 80.16500°W / 39.48333; -80.16500
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Colonial Apartments
Colonial Apartments in 2013
Colonial Apartments (Fairmont, West Virginia) is located in West Virginia
Colonial Apartments (Fairmont, West Virginia)
Colonial Apartments (Fairmont, West Virginia) is located in the United States
Colonial Apartments (Fairmont, West Virginia)
Location2 E. Garden Ln., Fairmont, West Virginia
Coordinates39°29′0″N 80°9′54″W / 39.48333°N 80.16500°W / 39.48333; -80.16500
Arealess than one acre
Built1900
Built byEdward Phillip Kennedy; Donald Kennedy
Architectural styleColonial Revival
NRHP reference No.06000653[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 26, 2006

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.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.[1]

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.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Michael Gioulis (January 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Colonial Apartments" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
  3. ^ "Folklife Center Groundbreaking Oct. 11". Fairmont State University. 27 October 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2021.