UPDATED: 2-27-2005
PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA:   A VINTAGE PORTRAIT

MOUNTAIN STATE BUSINESS COLLEGE




 



The new college building at Spring
and Sixteenth Streets.

(Photo courtesy of Jeremy Bungard)



Mountain State Business College was established in 1888 on lower Market Street. When a 1929 fire burned it out of its second location at 711 Market Street (top photo), the school moved to its own building at Spring and Sixteenth Streets in the 1930s (above).





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