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

Career Service Center

  
View looking southwest
 
Current use:
Administration offices and attention of students. The center provides career guidance and planning for students seeking employment.
Location: 
5th. Avenue, in front of Holderby Hall
Designers:
Unknown
Completed: 
Circa 1930
Name: 
For Virginia Governor James Cabell, for whom Cabell County is named.

This building was formerly a house. Its style is eclectic, in the Tudor manner, popular at the US between 1890 and 1940. It has a half timbering, decorative, mimicking medieval infilled timber framing, with stucco infilling between the timbers. The walls also alternates with red-brick, as it happens with the northern façade that faces 5th. Avenue. Note the superposition of gabled volumes at the front, and the crossing of a perpendicular gabled section backward.