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Originally built as the State Capitol in 1875-76, the building at the corner of 16th and Chapline became the Wheeling City Hall and Ohio County Court House building when the West Virginia state capital permanently moved to Charleston in 1885.
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The CITY-COUNTY BUILDING, Chapline St. between 15th and 16 Sts., is a massive red brick building of Romanesque design, trimmed with gray limestone. Above a central unit rises a square three-story bell and clock tower. The four corners of the north and south wings are surmounted by squat, domed towers. The building, designed by J. S. Fairfax, was erected in 1876 by citizens of Wheeling and donated to the State as a capitol, but it reverted to the city in 1885 when the capital was moved to Charleston.
A granite MONUMENT TO SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE CIVIL WAR stands on the southwest corner of the grounds... On the northeast corner is the TRADES AND LABOR MONUMENT, erected by employees of the Pollack Tobacco Company in honor of Augustus Pollack, one of the first tobacco manufacturers in Wheeling and a supporter of organized labor... THE PAXTON FOUNTAIN, in front of the main entrance, was given to the city by James W. Paxton in 1878.
The city-county building was eventually deemed archaic and was itself torn down in 1956 in favor of a more modern building built upon the same site. The cornerstone for the new building was laid in 1958 and dedicated January 30, 1960.
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The Jewish synagogue building on Eoff street was built in 1892. The congregation itself was founded in 1849 by German-speaking Jews and was called Leshem Shomayim (for the sake of Heaven). It was the was the first Jewish congregation in the state. The congregation moved to the current Temple Shalom building located in Woodsdale in 1958.
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