United Carbon Building
United Carbon Building | |
 United Carbon Building, April 2009 | |
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| Location | 1018 Kanawha Blvd., E., Charleston, West Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 38°20′46″N 81°38′4″W / 38.34611°N 81.63444°W |
| Built | 1940 |
| Architect | Walter F. Martens; H. B. Agsten & Sons |
| Architectural style | International Style, Moderne |
| NRHP reference No. | 94000720[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 15, 1994 |
United Carbon Building, also known as Boulevard Tower, Stanley Building, and Nelson Building, is a historic office building located at Charleston, West Virginia. It is a 12-story, steel-framed building sheathed in a smooth, unornamented shell of gold-colored brick, black steel and glass. Its slender volume rises 157 feet from the sidewalk to the twelfth-floor penthouse, which once served as the office of the building's prominent patron, Oscar Nelson (1879-1953). Mr. Nelson, president of the United Carbon Company, commissioned architect Walter F. Martens to design the structure. The building was commissioned in 1939 as the national headquarters for the United Carbon Company, which occupied the ninth through the twelfth floors until 1950.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1]
Its current list of tenants includes the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and the West Virginia Community and Technical College System.
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United Carbon Building (Rear View), April 2009 -
United Carbon Building (Entry Statue, "From the Fullness of the Earth"), April 2009
References[edit]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form" (PDF). United Carbon Building. State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. 2009-04-04.
- Office buildings completed in 1940
- Buildings and structures in Charleston, West Virginia
- International style architecture in West Virginia
- National Register of Historic Places in Charleston, West Virginia
- Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
- 1940s architecture in the United States
- Streamline Moderne architecture in West Virginia
- Kanawha County, West Virginia Registered Historic Place stubs