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900 Block
Looking northwest

900 Main St - Kossuth Park
Kossuth Park is a triangle of green just south of the I-70 bridge entrance. Apparently never used (except by eyes welcoming green), it is always maintained, and marked by a bronze plaque connected to a boulder. On the edge of Kossuth Park is the Historical Marker sign for the town of Wheeling.

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902 Main St - Virginia Apartments
Built 1902; actually condos now. Image from [|Ohio County Library]. Image is placeholder until I can find mine.

921 Main St - Robert C. Hazlett House
1887 Home of the Friends of Wheeling Historical Society. Built ~1887, architect: E.W. Wells. Hazlett was a surgeon during the Civil War and after and also discovered the first oil well in West Virginia (Pavilack and Fluty, 1990). Friends of Wheeling [|description].

923 Main St - Robert C. Woods House
//Later Jacob Rhodes House// ca. 1839-1845 Wide chimney indicates that this house was built before 1850 (Pavilack and Fluty, 1990). Snake Club (drinking club) now. [|Full history]

9xx Main St - Wheeling Marsh Stoggies Building
905-915 Market St Previously the hub of a cigar empire, now a long empty building. Who pays for the sign to be lit? Around the corner is this side, which stretches all the way to Market St (below): //from 1936 Chamber of Commerce brochure.// The nice buildings at bottom left have been torn down, making yet another parking lot for downtown Wheeling...

948 Main - Wheeling Hotel & Bridge Tavern
Built ca. 1926 according to [|Jon-Erik Gilot] Since 1957 the Bridge Tavern & Grill has filled the bottom floor of this building owned by Pete Dormas and his son [|George]. The Wheeling Hotel that occupied the upper floors has been closed since the 1970s. This is the location of the Wheeling House Hotel in pre-Civil War time, which was a stop on the Underground Railway; ironically only a short block from the slave market at 10th and Market. (Info from Charles Blockson, //The Undergound Railway//, p 160.) I am confused, for Blockson writes in 1998 that Wheeling House Hotel still stands, but is closed, whereas Gilot states the existing structure was built in about 1926; and the tavern at least was certainly open in 1998. When was the building built?

Grant House Hotel
//Back of envelope from late 1800s.//

Was this the hotel on the NE corner of 10th and Main before the present Bridge Tavern building was built?

949 Main - Downtowner Inn
1967 postcard documenting the garish Downtowner Inn, from the collection of Chuck Julian. Same building with less colorful front now known as the Wheeling Inn.

949-953 Main - Bridge Hotel
//from Ohio Public Library [|collection]// ca 1960 photo of old Bridge Hotel just north of Suspension Bridge; this was demolished in 1961, and replaced with the ghastly Downtowner Inn shown in the previous postcard.

Looking north on Main over Suspension Bridge


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