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Young-Noyes House

Coordinates: 38°20′2″N 81°37′5″W / 38.33389°N 81.61806°W / 38.33389; -81.61806
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Young-Noyes House
Young-Noyes House is located in West Virginia
Young-Noyes House
Young-Noyes House is located in the United States
Young-Noyes House
Location2122 Kanawha Ave., Charleston, West Virginia
Coordinates38°20′2″N 81°37′5″W / 38.33389°N 81.61806°W / 38.33389; -81.61806
Built1922
ArchitectBengston, Ludwig Theodore
Architectural styleColonial Revival
NRHP reference No.91000446[1]
Added to NRHPApril 25, 1991

Young-Noyes House, also known as the University of Charleston President's House, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was built in 1922 and is a white-painted 15-room brick house, featuring a central two-story gabled block and a shallow two-story gabled ell. It has a river-facing flat-roofed tetrastyle portico; the two-story smooth shaft columns are of the Doric order. The home is in the Colonial Revival style. It was purchased in 1951 to serve as the Morris Harvey College President's home.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form" (PDF). Young-Noyes House. State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. 2009-04-04.