Indian Rocks Dining Hall

United States historic place


Indian Rocks Dining Hall
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The upper story and roof, seen from WV 7 in September, 2015
39°30′37″N 79°45′55″W / 39.51028°N 79.76528°W / 39.51028; -79.76528
Area	12 acres (4.9 ha)
Built	1928
Architectural style	Adirondack
NRHP reference No.	02001688^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 8, 2003

Indian Rocks Dining Hall is a historic building located near Reedsville, Preston County, West Virginia. The dining hall was built in 1928, and 1+1⁄2 stories, with a hip porch on three sides. The front facade is of brown fieldstone with a large fireplace at the center front of the building. It is in the rustic Adirondack style. Also on the property are a contributing tourist cabin (c. 1928), an ice / spring house (1928), and an ice pond (c. 1928). The property was developed in the late-1920s by John Henry Hunt, Sr., who was a pioneer in African American entrepreneurship and worked for the advancement of African Americans in West Virginia.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Katherine Jourdan, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Clay, and Candice Clendenin (October 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Indian Rocks Dining Hall" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-09-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)