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Crispin Center

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1937–1938, Frederic F. Faris. .7 mile east of the Oglebay Mansion
  • (West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

This handsome Georgian Revival building is one of the park's major examples of CCC construction. Built of sandstone quarried nearby, the multipurpose recreation building contains dressing rooms for the enormous swimming pool (also a CCC project), a golf caddy shop, and other facilities.

Writing Credits

Author: 
S. Allen Chambers Jr.
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What's Nearby

Oglebay Park
Wilson Lodge
Oglebay Mansion Museum
Elm Hill (Campbell-Bloch House)
Carter Farm (Everbreeze)

Citation

S. Allen Chambers Jr., "Crispin Center", [Wheeling, West Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/WV-01-WH76.2.

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