Avery Street Civil War hospital building purchased, will be renovated



PARKERSBURG — A building that has stood for more than 180 a long time will be remodeled and ended up the unused domestic of two zone agencies.

Wood District Financial Improvement reported in a Facebook post Tuesday that it obtained the previous Gracious War clinic on Avery Street.

According to WCED Official Chief Lindsey Piersol, WCED obtained the building in June for $111,000 with government reserve reserves it gotten for 2022/2023. Concurring to Wood Province Assessor records they obtained it from 4Vision LLC.


She said they initially gotten the reserves for mechanical redevelopment on Warehouse Street.

The previous Respectful War clinic on Avery Road in Parkersburg was obtained by Wood District Financial Improvement in June with plans to redesign and find their workplaces in it. (Photo Provided)


So instep they inquired Congress if they might alter the utilize of the stores for the redevelopment of Downtown Parkersburg and Congress affirmed it, she said.

Piersol said WCED picked the building since of its authentic centrality and since it is found on a fundamental downtown thoroughfare.


According to the More prominent Parkersburg Tradition and Guests Bureau’s Notable Direct to Wood District, the building, too known as the Henry Logan House, is found at 402 Avery St. and is a two-story Government fashion brick domestic built in 1842.


The direct said the building was acquired from Henry Logan and at that point worked as one of five Joined together States Armed force clinics from 1863-1865. It said that the building is the as it were one of the five healing centers still standing.

According to the direct, the building was a civilian clinic in the 1890s and an expansion was included in 1986 on the south side of the building.


The sign from when the property was an eye clinic can still be seen in front of the building.

According to Piersol, WCED plans to remodel the building.

“The exterior … it will be revamped, modern roof, modern windows, unused entryway, repainted,” she said, but the exterior will have the same look.

She moreover said that the interior will be redesigned and WCED and Downtown PKB will move into the building and utilize it for their offices.

According to its site, Downtown PKB is a nonprofit that works to move forward downtown Parkersburg to superior back existing commercial foundations, cultivate venture and entrepreneurial exercises, make downtown living openings and advance tourism.


Piersol said there are still a few steps that have to be taken some time recently remodels can begin due to the stores for the building coming from the U.S. Office of Lodging and Urban Advancement. The steps incorporate conducting a stage I natural consider and working with the State Notable Conservation Office. She said they moreover have to hold an open offered prepare for the redesign work.

“I would trust by this time following year we would be in the building or near to being in the building,” Piersol said.


“People appear exceptionally energized that a building is being redesigned instep of torn down,” she said.

According to Piersol, WCED is energized around redesigning the building and they arrange to share upgrades on their social media pages. She said they need to be as open as they can approximately the entirety handle so they can empower more notable conservation in Parkersburg.