Avery Street Historic District
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Avery Street Historic District
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The former St. John's Lutheran Church on Avery Street
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| Location | Roughly bounded by Nineteenth, Spring and Quincy, Eighth, and Market Sts., Parkersburg, West Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 39°16′15″N 81°33′18″W / 39.27083°N 81.55500°WCoordinates: 39°16′15″N 81°33′18″W / 39.27083°N 81.55500°W |
| Area | 109 acres (44 ha) |
| Architect | Multiple |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Mixed (more Than 2 Styles From Different Periods), Queen Anne |
| NRHP reference # | 86000849 |
| Added to NRHP | April 15, 1986 |
Avery Street Historic District, is a national historic district located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It is to the east of the Julia-Ann Square Historic District and south of the Parkersburg High School-Washington Avenue Historic District. Primarily residential, it encompasses 109 acres and includes churches, a school, and a small commercial area. Built as Parkersburg's first "suburb" in the late-19th and early-20th century in popular architectural style such as Colonial Revival and Queen Anne, the district exhibits 12 distinctive types of Historic architecture. There are 358 contributing buildings, 59 of which are considered to be pivotal. U.S. Senator Johnson N. Camden (1826-1908) owned most of the land now included in the district. Located in the district are the separately listed Parkersburg Women's Club and the First Presbyterian Church/Calvary Temple Evangelical Church.
It was added to the National Register of Historical Places in 1986.
As Michael J. Pauley, historian, explains "The Avery Street Historic District District, Parkersburg's first "suburban" development, is highly significant for the historic role it played in sustaining the city as one of West Virginia's leading cities, housing the families who were the "life-blood" of the city's growth and development, and is significant for reflecting the rich architectural legacy of this region. The decade of 1900-1910 was the real period of growth for the district. During this decade the "Avery Street Extension" as the area on Avery Street (8th Street to beyond 19th) was then called, took form as a real neighborhood; much of the built environment of today's district took place during this period."
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