The CITY-COUNTY BUILDING, Chapline St. between 15th and 16 Sts., is a massive red brick building of Romanesque design, trimmed with gray limestone. Above a central unit rises a square three-story bell and clock tower. The four corners of the north and south wings are surmounted by squat, domed towers. The building, designed by J. S. Fairfax, was erected in 1876 by citizens of Wheeling and donated to the State as a capitol, but it reverted to the city in 1885 when the capital was moved to Charleston.

A granite MONUMENT TO SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE CIVIL WAR stands on the southwest corner of the grounds... On the northeast corner is the TRADES AND LABOR MONUMENT, erected by employees of the Pollack Tobacco Company in honor of Augustus Pollack, one of the first tobacco manufacturers in Wheeling and a supporter of organized labor... THE PAXTON FOUNTAIN, in front of the main entrance, was given to the city by James W. Paxton in 1878.