Editing Charleston, West Virginia (section)

===Historical structures and museums===
[[File:Kanawha County Courthouse.jpg|thumb|The [[Kanawha County Courthouse]]]]
Charleston has several older buildings in various architectural styles. About [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Kanawha County, West Virginia|50 places in Charleston]] are on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref> A segment of the East End consisting of several blocks of Virginia and Quarrier Streets, encompassing an area of nearly a full square mile, has been officially designated as a historical neighborhood. The neighborhood has many houses dating from the late 19th and early 20th century as well as a few [[art deco]] style apartment buildings dating from the 1920s and early 30s.

Downtown Charleston is home to several commercial buildings between 80 and 115 years old, including the Security Building (corner of Virginia and Capitol Street), 405 Capitol Street (the former Daniel Boone Hotel), the Union Building (at the southern end of Capitol Street), the Kanawha County Courthouse, the Public Library (corner of Capitol and Quarrier Streets), and the Masonic Temple (corner of Virginia and Dickenson Street). Also of note are several historic churches grouped closely together in a neighborhood just east of downtown; [[Basilica of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart (Charleston, West Virginia)|Basilica of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart]] (one of the two cathedrals of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston]]), First Presbyterian Church, Kanawha United Presbyterian Church, St. John's Episcopal Church, Charleston Baptist Temple, St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, and Christ Church United Methodist.

Other historic buildings can be found throughout the city, particularly in the broader East End, the West Side, and Kanawha City. They include the Avampato Discovery Museum (now part of the [[Clay Center, West Virginia|Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences]]), Sunrise Museum, (now part of the [[Clay Center, West Virginia|Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences]]), [[West Virginia State Museum]], St. George Orthodox Cathedral, St. Marks United Methodist Church, the Capitol Theater, and the Woman's Club of Charleston.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}