Gilmer County Poor Farm Infirmary is a historic poor farm infirmary building located near Glenville

Glenville, West Virginia

Glenville is a town in and the county seat of Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States, along the Little Kanawha River. The population was 1,544 at the 2000 census. It is the home of Glenville State College.-History:...

, Gilmer County, West Virginia

Gilmer County, West Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 7,160 people, 2,768 households, and 1,862 families residing in the county. The population density was 21 people per square mile . There were 3,621 housing units at an average density of 11 per square mile...

. It was built in 1907, and is a two story, three bay, center entrance frame building with a cross-hip pitched roof and Colonial Revival

Colonial Revival architecture

The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style, garden design, and interior design movement in the United States which sought to revive elements of Georgian architecture, part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement in the arts. In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own...

-style details. The infirmary was in operation until 1941, after which it was used as a day care center and as meeting space for local social and civic organizations.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1998.