Tudor Revival

There are three wonderful stories associated with the beginnings of this Tudor Revival style home. Its design is based on an English castle. The owner had it built to persuade his new bride to move to Bluefield, WV. There are bits of coal dust in some of the bricks.

This 1925 home is known as the Cooper House.

The Cooper family was among the region's leading coal entrepreneurs. The builder's grandfather was one of the earliest investors in the Pocahontas coalfield, and his father built one of the great mansions in nearby Bramwell, WV. That mansion is also known as the Cooper House. One fascinating architectural detail – when a new house was being built, if the architects wanted it to have an established, aged look from the beginning, they would use “clinker” bricks. These jagged, rough bricks would generally be discarded in most designs; but in a Tudor house like this, these clinker bricks would give it an historic flair from the very beginning.

The original home was completed at a price of $28,000. The family crest is featured above the front entrance of this impressive South Bluefield home.