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Pythian Lodge Building

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The Pythian Lodge Building in Wheeling

Built in 1927. A late Classical Revival Lodge in Renaissance/Beaux-Arts style, this building had Mythological and Classical motifs in its frieze. 

In 1989, the Pythian Lodge Building was demolished to create a plaza park site for West Virginia Northern Community College (housed in the old B&O Building). Three pediments from the lodge were preserved, set on brick piers, and used to form gateways to the College Square Plaza. Designed by the Wheeling architecture firm of Shaeffer and Madama, the plaza won an honorable mention from the West Virginia Chapter of the AIA in 1989.

▶ More history coming soon.

 Location

 ▶ SE Corner of 16th & Market Streets (Demolished - now a courtyard for West Virginia Northern Community College. Elements from the building were salvaged and used to create vaulted entrances into the courtyard).

Images

Pythian Lodge Building

Additional Resources

Materials in the Library:
▶ Vertical File: Pythian Building, Wheeling Room, non-circulating, ask for access at the reference desk.

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