Alex B. Mahood
Architect
1888 – 1970
Who was Alex B. Mahood?
Alexander Blount Mahood was a Bluefield, West Virginia-based architect.
He was born at Lynchburg, Virginia in 1888 and attended the École des Beaux-Arts. He came to Bluefield in 1912 and set up business. He was the architect for the West Virginia Hotel and many of his major residential works are in the South Bluefield area. These included the Country Club and the Country Club Hill section where the Bluefield Club was constructed in 1920. Mahood designed mansions for magnates of the southern coalfields, and embellished Bluefield's residential districts with some of the grandest Georgian Revival houses in the state.
He designed the Women's Dormitory at the West Virginia University in Morgantown, United States Steel Building in Gary, Skyway Drive-In Theater in Brush Fork, the Deco-Style Mercer County Courthouse in Princeton and the Guyan Theater in Logan. He also designed a number of coal company offices and stores in the southern West Virginia region. He may have also designed the McNeer House near Salt Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
He died in 1970, at Bluefield, West Virginia.
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- Born
- Mar 17, 1888
Lynchburg - Also known as
- Alex Mahood
- Died
- Dec 25, 1970
Bluefield
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on July 23, 2013
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