Located at 400 Neville Street in downtown Beckley, West Virginia, the United States Federal Court Building was designed by Alex B. Mahood and S.H. Bridge in 1934 in the 20th century post-war American public architecture style.(1) It was constructed of stone and yellow fire brick, and is one story with a basement and mezzanine.
The building served as the city’s post office when it first opened, and then as a federal courthouse from 1961 to 1999 when the new Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse and Federal Building opened.(1)(2)
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- Designation: Beckley Post Office, Raleigh County Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse
- Address: 400 Neville Street, Beckley, West Virginia
- Constructed: 1934
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Sources
- United States. Dept. of the Interior. Beckley Courthouse Square Historic District. Comp. Kim A. Valente. Washington: National Park Service, Apr. 1994. West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Web. 11 Apr. 2012. Article.
- “History.” Beckley-Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2012. Article.