The Memorial Arch is a historic memorial arch located in Memorial Park at Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia. It was built between 1924 and 1929 by the Cabell County War Memorial Association as a memorial to the dead and to those who served the county in World War I. It is built of gray Indiana limestone on a gray granite base. It measures 42 feet high, 34 feet wide, and 9 feet deep. It features Classical Revival style bas-relief carvings. The structure was rededicated in 1980. It is the only triumphal style arch in West Virginia.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.[2]
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- ↑ Rodney S. Collins (December 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Memorial Arch". State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/cabell/81000597.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-23.
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