Today in Wheeling History: March 17—Riverside Iron Works Office Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (2015).
On March 17, 2015, the Riverside Iron Works Office Building at 1507–1509 Main Street in Wheeling was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Commonly known as the Flatiron Building, the four-story masonry structure sits on a small triangular lot at the corner of Main and South Streets, near the confluence of Wheeling Creek and the Ohio River.
Construction on the building began in October 1895, and the Wheeling Intelligencer reported in April 1896 that the new Riverside Iron Works office and ware rooms would be completed and occupied by June 1. Designed by the locally renowned architectural firm of Franzheim, Giesey & Faris, the building's first three floors were constructed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, featuring light-colored brick, rusticated ashlar stonework at the rounded corner bay, and decorative arched brickwork throughout. A fourth floor was added around 1907.
The building served as headquarters for Riverside Iron Works, one of Wheeling's most significant iron and steel manufacturers. In 1899, National Tube Company acquired Riverside for six million dollars. The property later passed to Wheeling Steel and Iron Company. Over the following decades, tenants included the American Legion Post No. 1, the Girl Scouts of America, and the U.S. Naval Communications Reserve. In the mid-1950s, while the current City-County Building was under construction, it housed police headquarters, the city auditor and treasurer, the water department, the city manager, the city clerk, and the county health department.
Purchased in 2014 by Kevin and Patricia Duffin, the building was renovated into luxury loft apartments and commercial space, including Table 304, a café operated by a local mother-daughter team.
To learn more: Ohio County Public Library, Wheeling WV (https://tinyurl.com/yx9hk833) (https://tinyurl.com/2uut8wmm); National Park Service (https://tinyurl.com/ymbhj433), Wikipedia (https://tinyurl.com/yc2f998m), Abandoned (https://tinyurl.com/3zcue8sh), Archiving Wheeling (https://tinyurl.com/ab448hmk), WTOV9 (https://tinyurl.com/3vbd9sdk), Table 304 (https://tinyurl.com/ye7cpmhp)
Photo credits: Ohio County Public Library Archives, Wheeling WV; Wikimedia Commons, The Historical Marker Database
On March 17, 2015, the Riverside Iron Works Office Building at 1507–1509 Main Street in Wheeling was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Commonly known as the Flatiron Building, the four-story masonry structure sits on a small triangular lot at the corner of Main and South Streets, near the confluence of Wheeling Creek and the Ohio River.
Construction on the building began in October 1895, and the Wheeling Intelligencer reported in April 1896 that the new Riverside Iron Works office and ware rooms would be completed and occupied by June 1. Designed by the locally renowned architectural firm of Franzheim, Giesey & Faris, the building's first three floors were constructed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, featuring light-colored brick, rusticated ashlar stonework at the rounded corner bay, and decorative arched brickwork throughout. A fourth floor was added around 1907.
The building served as headquarters for Riverside Iron Works, one of Wheeling's most significant iron and steel manufacturers. In 1899, National Tube Company acquired Riverside for six million dollars. The property later passed to Wheeling Steel and Iron Company. Over the following decades, tenants included the American Legion Post No. 1, the Girl Scouts of America, and the U.S. Naval Communications Reserve. In the mid-1950s, while the current City-County Building was under construction, it housed police headquarters, the city auditor and treasurer, the water department, the city manager, the city clerk, and the county health department.
Purchased in 2014 by Kevin and Patricia Duffin, the building was renovated into luxury loft apartments and commercial space, including Table 304, a café operated by a local mother-daughter team.
To learn more: Ohio County Public Library, Wheeling WV (https://tinyurl.com/yx9hk833) (https://tinyurl.com/2uut8wmm); National Park Service (https://tinyurl.com/ymbhj433), Wikipedia (https://tinyurl.com/yc2f998m), Abandoned (https://tinyurl.com/3zcue8sh), Archiving Wheeling (https://tinyurl.com/ab448hmk), WTOV9 (https://tinyurl.com/3vbd9sdk), Table 304 (https://tinyurl.com/ye7cpmhp)
Photo credits: Ohio County Public Library Archives, Wheeling WV; Wikimedia Commons, The Historical Marker Database
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