Fairmont Normal School Administration Building

Fairmont Normal School Administration Building is a historic school building located on the campus of Fairmont State University at Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia. It was built between 1915 and 1917, and is a large three-story Classical Revival style building sited atop a hill overlooking Locust Avenue. Its light coated brick exterior walls are ornamented with limestone and terra cotta details. Its front features a portico with eight Ionic order columns with shafts made of Indiana Blue Limestone. The original building measured 265 feet by 65 feet; the west wing was added in 1927.[2]

Fairmont Normal School Administration Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Administration Building, now Hardway Hall, in 2008
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Location	Jct. of Locust Ave. and Bryant St., Fairmont, West Virginia
Coordinates	39°28′59″N 80°9′37″W
Area	1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built	1917
Architect	Paul A. Davis III
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	94000216[1]
Added to NRHP	March 28, 1994

The building was renamed Hardway Hall in 1989 for Wendell G. Hardway, a former president of Fairmont State College.[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Robert E. Crites (December 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Fairmont Normal School Administration Building" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
3. "100th Birthday Celebration for Hardway Hall Set for Oct. 15". Fairmont State University. October 12, 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.