Klieves, Kraft and Company

Klieves, Kraft and Co. was one of the most enterprising contracting and architectural firms in Wheeling, West Virginia. Established in 1868, by Charles C. Kraft who emigrated from the Kingdom of Hanover in Germany in 1834 and Theodore C. Klieves who also emigrated from the Kingdom of Hanover in Germany in 1846, the firm later added E.W. Wells as a partner around 1878. Klieves, Kraft and Company stood at the head of the architecture, contracting and building business of West Virginia , building such historic structures as Woodburn Hall (the original building of West Virginia University, completed in 1876 at a cost of $41,500), and the homes of A. W. Kelly, George E. Stifel, Dr. Hazlett, A. W. Paull, McKinley, and other structures.

Partners

Bernard Klieves, president
Charles C. Kraft, treasurer
F. B. Klieves, secretary
E.W. Wells, partner

Buildings on the National Register of Historic Places attributed to Klieves, Kraft and Co. (or its architects)"'

Centre Market Square Historic District (Wheeling, WV)
Chapline Street Row Historic District (Wheeling, WV)
Monroe Street East Historic District (Wheeling, WV)
Robert W. Hazlett House (Wheeling, WV)
Oglebay Mansion Museum (in Oglebay Park, Wheeling, WV)
Woodburn Quadrangle (at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV)

External links

* [http://www.ia.wvu.edu/~magazine/issues/fall2001/htmlfiles/woodburn.html Woodburn Hall]

* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvwags/bioklie3.txt Klieves, Kraft and Company- From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY"]

* [http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/wv/Ohio/state.html Wheeling Area Buildings on the National Register of Historic Places]