Colonial Apartments | |
Location | 2 E. Garden Ln., Fairmont, West Virginia |
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Coordinates | 39°29′0″N 80°9′54″W / 39.48333°N 80.16500°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1900 |
Built by | Edward Phillip Kennedy; Donald Kennedy |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 06000653 [1] |
Added to NRHP | July 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]