Marshall University Architectural Guide
by Carlos Bozzoli, Architect
The John Deaver Drinko Academy

Cabell Hall

 
View from south east
 
Current use:
Community and Technical College Formerly was a church.
Location: 
20th. Street & 7th. Avenue, Huntington, WV
Designers:
Unknown
Completed: 
Circa 1908
Name: 
For Virginia Governor James Cabell, for whom Cabell County is named.

The exterior form of the building is of a typical brick masonry gothic church. The main façade has a central gabled section, with two brick buttresses at each side, and a compound of three windows with pointed arches. A slightly projecting gabled entrance, with buttresses, marks the entrance. A transversal gable pavilion, smaller than the main aisle, intercrosses the whole extreme of the building. All gables are parapeted and finished with stone edges. An auxiliary section intersects the building at its back, and a tower (like a belfry) has been inserted at the junction. The church section of the building has a continuous stone pediment, which makes this part standing six steps above the sidewalk entrance. The interior has been completely recycled, and now this facility has three useful levels where was the former unique space of the church, in a rather pragmatic intervention that does not have relation with the exterior appearance.