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A look at the West Virginia Building
West Virginia Building
YEAR BUILT: 1924, with the mezzanine replaced by an additional floor after 1943.
ARCHITECTURAL FIRM: Meaner and Hanloser.
STYLE: Italianate and Renaissance Revival elements.
SIZE: 15 stories.
HISTORY: Built as the Union Bank and Trust Building, and later renamed the West Virginia Building by Realtor Eddie Kyle. Reportedly one of, if not the tallest building in West Virginia when it was built, and the second-tallest building in the state in the 1980s, perhaps still today. Former home to the swanky restaurant Permon's, and the original home to WSAZ-TV.
CURRENTLY: Owned by Jesse Wellner of Well Street Properties, LLC in New York. Filled with apartments, as well as Village Collection women's fashion boutique. A new restaurant, Huntington Prime, is planned to fill another ground floor space and is expected to open to the public in early 2010. Owner Michael Bowe will offer private, booked parties over this holiday season. He can be reached at bowe3@mctc.edu.
SOURCE: "A Survey of Downtown Huntington," a report by Marshall historians and presented to the Cabell County Landmarks Commission in 1985.
