W.H. Smith Hardware Company Building
About W.H. Smith Hardware Company Building
W. H. Smith Hardware Company Building, also known as the Oil and Gas Museum of the Oil, Gas and Industrial Historical Association, is a historic commercial building located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1899, on the foundation of a building built about 1874. It is a four-story, masonry building with Romanesque Revival architectural details. The rectangular building measure 60 by 120 feet (18 by 37 m), with an 18-by-12-foot (5.5 by 3.7 m) outcrop. It housed the W. H. Smith Hardware Company, until the 1980s. It now houses the Oil and Gas Museum.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 1.9 miles of W.H. Smith Hardware Company Building; the closest, Oil and Gas Museum, is practically next door.
