According to Wikipedia, it has 9,600 souls, but it's oart of the Bluefield Metropolitan Area - whcih has 106K people. The wiki page also notes that it has a Downtown Commerical Historic District, but as you'll see, something horrible happened.

An 1895 structure that made it into the 21st century! Good for you, old man.

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Something tells me this was a movie theater. Why do I say that?

Exit door on the right. Different color brick suggesting a glass case for posters.

A bank, you say? No doubt. But .

It has a ballroom on the top floor, and that goes with BPOE over the door.

As long as we’re IDing function based on our accumulated know-how of building types: what’s this windowless brute? Hint: the roof.

Pretty sure it is, or was, a phone company building.

Hey, don’t I usually remove markings like this? I do, and it's tedious. But necessary here.

GONE.

Let’s look at the block from another angle:

Before it went down:

Holy Crow:

This was one of the most comprehensive urban renewal projects I’ve seen:

Another angle:

Remarkable. Surely that didn't have to happen.

Big fan here. Love the International-Style-meets-UFO style.

Nice downtown view.

But . . .

Lots of decay remains.

These might have been some of the buildings that went down, but I don’t think so.

Looks new, but it's not.

It doesn’t seem as if they have a definite plan to fill the site. But it's creating opportunities!

Good luck, guys.