Ruble Church
Appearance
Ruble Church | |
Location | Jct. of CR 34/1 and 34/2, Burning Springs, West Virginia |
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Coordinates | 39°0′7″N 81°18′29″W / 39.00194°N 81.30806°W |
Area | 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) |
Built | 1854 |
NRHP reference No. | 82004332[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 9, 1982 |
Ruble Church is a historic church at the junction of CR 34/1 and 34/2 in Burning Springs, Wirt County, West Virginia. It was built in 1854, and is a one-story, rectangular, gable-roofed log structure measuring 15 feet (4.6 m) by 25 feet (7.6 m). Also on the property is the church cemetery, in which the oldest graves are dated to 1857–1858.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]
The church was demolished in September 2020. As of November 2020, it is being reconstructed on the same spot using some of the original logs.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Rodney S . Collins (December 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Ruble Church" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
Categories:
- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
- Churches in Wirt County, West Virginia
- Churches completed in 1854
- 19th-century churches in the United States
- National Register of Historic Places in Wirt County, West Virginia
- Wooden churches in West Virginia
- 1854 establishments in Virginia
- Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
- Demolished buildings and structures in West Virginia
- Buildings and structures destroyed in 2020
- Mid-Ohio Valley, West Virginia Registered Historic Place stubs
- Southern United States church stubs
- West Virginia building and structure stubs