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The Wheeling Memory Project: The Pythian Building

Built in 1928 by the Wheeling Pythian Association  and Samuel Plato, race contractor, of Louisville, Kentucky, at 1025-27 Chapline Street, the Pythian Building was intended to be a modern office building, including stores, a theatre and auditorium. The Pythian Building continued in operation into the fifties, and included the Pythian Theatre, later called the Fedo Theatre, facilities for the Pythian organization, a restaurant initially called the Pythian Restaurant, but from 1938 on called The Palm Garden, the Pythian (sometimes Fraternity) Barbershop, and the Friendship Billiard Parlor, among other tenants.

View a gallery of images of the exterior and interior of the building as it looked in September, 2022.

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Watch the Lunch With Books program, "Reliving the Pythian" with presenter Daryl Clausell, recorded Jan. 17, 2023.

 

On January 4, 2023, staff of the Ohio County Public Library sat down with Daryl Clausell, Tressie Fitzhugh, Karla Wood, Ron Johnson, Kathy Fuller, Betty Gordon, and Delores Long to record these videos for the Wheeling Memory Project.

PART ONE:

Introductions.
 

 

PART TWO:

Doc White; school desegregation.
 

 

PART THREE:

Lincoln homes and Vineyard Hills.
 

 

PART FOUR:

"Where's the Black community?"
 

 

PART FIVE:

Key Club; "you had to be 18."
 

 

Transcriptions of these videos are in the works. Check back soon.

Audio only:

 

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