Federal Aviation Administration Records Center

United States historic place

Federal Aviation Administration
Records Center

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location| 300 W. King St.,
Martinsburg, West Virginia
Coordinates| 39°27′25″N 77°58′00″W﻿ / ﻿39.4569°N 77.9667°W﻿ / 39.4569; -77.9667
Built| 1892
Architectural style| Romanesque Revival
Website| http://www.theartcentre.org
NRHP reference No.| 74001995
Added to NRHP| September 10, 1974[1]

The Federal Aviation Administration Records Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia is the former United States Courthouse and Post Office for the city. It is a Richardson Romanesque style building, principally designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke, of the Office of the Supervising Architect.[2] It was used as a federal courthouse and post office from 1895 to 1961, when both functions moved across the street to a new facility. The building to some extent resembles Henry Hobson Richardson's now-destroyed Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Building.[3]

The Federal Aviation Administration occupied the building in 1970, primarily as an emergency relocation center for Washington-based operations, then vacated the building in the 1990s. The blast-resistant construction and communications facilities are still visible in the basement.[4] During the Cold War, the Justice Department and essential operations staff of the Federal Bureau of Investigation planned to use the building's top floors as an emergency relocation center.[5]

The building was partly renovated as an arts center. It is part of the Downtown Martinsburg Historic District and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. ^ John D. Milner (June 22, 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Federal Aviation Administration Records Center" (PDF). West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-04.
3. ^ Chambers, S. Allen Jr. (2004). Buildings of West Virginia. Oxford University Press. p. 529\. ISBN 0-19-516548-9.
4. ^ "Martinsburg Arts Centre in Larger Venue", Quad-State Business Journal, November 2006, accessed June 13, 2008
5. ^ Graff, Garrett M. (2017). Raven Rock: the story of the U.S. government's secret plan to save itself -- while the rest of us die. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 110–111. ISBN 978-1-4767-3540-5. OCLC 971248821.

## External links[edit]

* Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. WV-154, "Federal Aviation Administration Records Center, 300 West King Street, Martinsburg, Berkeley County, WV", 1 photo, 1 photo caption page

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