Public Notice

North Wheeling Historic District Boundary
Increase
A boundary increase to the North Wheeling Historic District in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, will be considered by the West Virginia Archives and History Commission for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places at its meeting on June 10, 2022. The meeting will take place at 9:30 AM at the Cacapon Resort State Park Conference Center (818 Cacapon Lodge Dr., Berkeley Springs, WV 25411). If the meeting must be cancelled due to inclement weather, lack of quorum, or other emergency, it will be rescheduled for a later date at a location to be determined. Please contact the West Virginia State Historic Preservation office at 304.558.0240 or
[email protected]
for details on how to attend or for further updates.
A copy of the meeting agenda will be available by contacting Aaron Parsons at 304.558.0230. The area to be nominated includes approximately 20.9 acres of Wheeling comprising the area encompassed by Northern Parkway at the north, the Ohio River at the west, 6th St. at the south and a bluff at the east. A copy of a map depicting the boundary can be obtained by contacting Mr. Cody Straley, National Register Historian, at the State Historic Preservation Office at 304.558.0240.
Listing in the National Register, the Federal government’s official list of historic properties worthy of preservation, results in the following for historic properties:
1. Consideration in planning for Federal, Federally licensed, and Federally assisted projects. The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation must be given an opportunity to comment on all Federally funded or licensed projects affecting listing properties. For further information, see 36 CFR 800.
2. Eligibility for Federal tax provisions. The Federal Internal Revenue Code encourages the preservation of depreciable historic structures by allowing favorable tax treatments for rehabilitation, and also provides for charitable contributions for conservation purposes of partial interests in historically important land areas or structures. For further information, see 36 CFR 67.
3. Eligibility for State tax provisions. Homeowners Residential and Commercial/Income-producing tax credits are available for historic properties which are rehabilitated and meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation.
4. Consideration of historic value in the decision by the State or Federal government to issue a surface coal mining permit where coal is located. For further information, see W. Va. Code R. Sec 38-2.
5. Eligibility for Federal and/or State grants-in-aid, whenever funds are appropriated by Congress and/or the West Virginia Legislature.
Owners of private property within the nominated boundary may concur in, object to, or comment on the nomination in accord with 36 CFR Part 60. Any owner or partial owner who objects to listing should submit a notarized statement (certifying ownership and objection to listing) by June 10, 2022 to Ms. Susan M. Pierce, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer, Department of Arts, Culture and History, The Culture Center, 1900 Kanawha Blvd. East, Charleston, West Virginia 25305-0300. Moreover, all interested parties may comment on the nomination, especially on the significance of the property and whether or not it meets the National Register Criteria for Evaluation. These written comments may be made to the same address by June 10, 2022. Should the meeting be postponed, comments and objections will be accepted until the date of the rescheduled meeting.
A copy of the nomination, the criteria used for evaluation, and additional information on the National Register process and results of listing are available from the State Historic Preservation Office, at the above address. Inquiries may be directed to Mr. Cody Straley, National Register Historian, at 304.558.0240 ext. 712 or at
[email protected].
Int. May 11, 2022