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1888 isolated remnant: a building.

A tune you should hum while you look at the building is "Over the Waves," which is from 1888, the same year the building was built.

 

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In downtown Wheeling, West Virginia, on December 23rd, 2019, the Unruh Building (1125-27 Main St., built 1888, a "contributing property" in the Wheeling Historic District, 79002597 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the west side of Main Street (West Virginia Route 2) between 11th Street and 12th Street.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Ohio (county) (1002741)

• Wheeling (2764254)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• brick (clay material) (300010463)

• brick red (color) (300311462)

• historic buildings (300008063)

• historic districts (300000737)

• oblique views (300015503)

• parking lots (300007826)

• pediments (300002726)

• three-story (300163795)

• trees (300132410)

• winter (300133101)

 

Wikidata items:

• 23 December 2019 (Q57350913)

• 1880s in architecture (Q60996911)

• 1888 in architecture (Q2810684)

• contributing property (Q76321820)

• December 23 (Q2676)

• December 2019 (Q47087610)

• ghost sign (Q3410466)

• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)

• Northern Panhandle (Q1750731)

• ornamental tree (Q33249028)

• Rust Belt (Q781973)

• Treaty of Fort Stanwix (Q246501)

• West Virginia Route 2 (Q2508362)

• Wheeling Historic District (Q7992301)

• Wheeling, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area (Q7992292)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Brick wall signs (sh89002392)

• Brick walls (sh85016796)

• Commercial buildings—West Virginia (sh89004848)

• Historic districts—West Virginia (sh93001401)

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Uploaded on May 20, 2022
Taken on December 23, 2019