Minter Homes Corporation Records, 1923-1932 A&M 3654

West Virginia and Regional History Center

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P.O. Box 6069
Morgantown, WV 26506-6069
Business Number: 304-293-3536
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Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History Center

Repository

West Virginia and Regional History Center

Identification

A&M 3654

Title

Minter Homes Corporation Records 1923-1932

URL:

https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/196212

Quantity

5 Linear Feet, 5 ft. (4 record cartons, 15 in. each)

Creator

Minter Homes Corporation

Location

West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/

Language

English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Minter Homes Corporation Records, A&M 3654, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Records of Minter Homes Corporation of Huntington, West Virginia, regarding the company's building of prefabricated structures. The collection documents early construction projects of Minter Homes (1923-1932), including homes, schools, and churches, among other community buildings, for miners, steel workers, and support staff of several coal, chemical, and steel corporations in the Appalachian and Mid-Atlantic Regions. Among the companies Minter Homes contracted with were Bethlehem Steel, DuPont Rayon, Elkhorn Piney Coal Mining Company, and U.S. Coal and Coke. Includes contracts, blue prints, correspondence, invoices, estimates, and specification statements. There are records of a project contracted by the United States War Department with Minter Homes (1930) for the building of Nurses Quarters at Fort Meade, Maryland. The collection also contains a folder of material pertaining to the history of Minter Homes, including correspondence, advertisements, and articles (Box 1, Folder 1).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Builders and contractors.
Minter Homes Corporation

Container List

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1

Minter Homes Historical Information

undated

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2

Electro Metallurgical Co. -- Falls View Layout (includes blueprints)

1930

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3

Falls District Board of Education -- Order 5G5 -- 1 to 8 Room School

1931

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4

Elkhorn Piney Coal Mining Co. -- Powder Houses & Church, Orders 5J2 & 5J3 (includes correspondence)

1931

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5

Ford Motor Co. (includes estimates, contracts)

1926

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6

Electro Metallurgical Co. -- Boncar, WV, Order JC2 (includes contract and correspondence)

1930

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7

Glogora Coal Co. -- Order 5G7 -- Contract

1926

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8

DuPont Rayon Co. -- 2 Georgia Type Houses, Order 5D2

1930

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9-10

Dunkirk Apartment Co. (includes blueprints and contract)

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11

Houston Collieries -- 44 Houses, Order 5E2 (includes contract and estimates)

1930

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12

Huntington School Board (includes contracts and blueprints)

1926

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13-14

Elkhorn Piney Coal Mining Co. -- 50 Houses & 4 Houses, Orders 5B1 & 5B1A (includes correspondence)

1930

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15

Electro Metallurgical Co. (includes contract, specifications, and plans)

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 16

August W. Grebe (includes contracts, plans, specifications, invoices, and blueprints)

1923

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 17-18

Cleveland & Western Coal Co. (includes reports, contracts, and correspondence)

1923–1925

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 19

Elkhorn Piney Coal Mining Co. -- Addition to Store, Orders 5J7-5J5 (includes correspondence)

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 20-21

Electro Metallurgical Co. -- 13 Attached Dwellings, Orders 5D6 & 5H2 (includes contract and correspondence)

1930

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 22-23

Essex Coal Co. -- Contract File (includes specifications, correspondence, and other material)

1925

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 24

Ebenezer M.E. Church, Sparrows Point, MD (includes contract and specifications)

1924

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 25-26

Elkhorn Coal Corp. -- Order 5L4 (includes contracts, plans, and correspondence)

1925–1926

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 27-28

Melcroft Coal Co. -- Order 5J2 (includes blueprints and correspondence)

1927–1928

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 29-30

Lake Superior Coal Co. -- 1 Store & 1 Office, Order 5D1 (includes estimates, specifications, and correspondence)

1930

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 31

Specifications for Commercial Buildings, Dundalk, MD (includes contract)

1928

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 32

Bethlehem Steel, Dundalk, MD, Order 5A2 (includes photocopies of specifications and correspondence)

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 33

DuPont Rayon Co. -- 105 Houses, Order 5D5 & 5A5A (includes contract, correspondence, and estimates)

1930

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1

Vesta Coal Co. -- Orders -- 5K12-14 & 15

1927–1928

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2

Vesta Coal Co. -- Correspondence -- Order 5G6

1927

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3

Vesta Coal Co. -- Correspondence, Fence, Orders 5F8 & 5H6

1927

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4

Vesta Coal Co. -- Camp Buildings, Order 5F6 (includes correspondence)

1927

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5

Vesta Coal Co. -- Order 5K10 (includes blueprints)

1927

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6

Pittsburgh Coal Co. -- Order 5K3 (includes correspondence, contracts, and blueprints)

1928

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7

Pittsburgh Coal Co. -- Order 5L2 – Invoice

1928

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8

Pittsburgh Coal Co. -- Correspondence -- Order 5B3

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9

Pittsburgh Coal Co. -- Creps Building Repairs -- Montour #1 Mine, Order 5E1

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10

Pittsburgh Coal Co. -- Order 5L3

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11

Pittsburgh Coal Co. -- Order 5K4 (includes blueprints and specifications)

1928

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12

Pittsburgh Coal Co. -- Correspondence, Order 5K2

1928

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13

Pittsburgh Mercantile Co. -- Orders, Correspondence -- Order 5A5

1927

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14-15

Pittsburgh Mercantile Co. -- Store Buildings, Order 5H12, Correspondence and Specification Plans

1927

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16

Bethlehem Steel Co. Contracts Completed (includes blueprints)

1925–1926

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17

Pressed Metal Radiator Co. (includes correspondence)

1923

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18

Penn Pitt Coal & Coke Co. (includes invoices)

1924–1925

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 19-20

Pond Creek -- Pocahontas Co. (includes correspondence, contract, and blueprints)

1925–1926

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 21-22

Sycamore Coal (includes specification and correspondence)

1924–1925

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 23-24

Pike-Floyd Coal Co. -- Contract File

1923–1924

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 25

Shannon Coal & Coke Co. (includes blueprint and correspondence)

1923

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 26-27

E.O. Shelby (includes miscellaneous correspondence and specifications)

1924

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 28-31

U.S. Coal & Coke Co. -- Lynch, KY -- Order 5D3 (includes blueprints, contract, and correspondence)

1930

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 32-34

War Department -- Fort George G. Meade, MD, Part I and II (includes blueprints and contract)

1930–1931

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 35

War Department -- Fort George G. Meade, MD -- Nurses Quarters

1930

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 36

WV Seating Co. -- Contract

1926

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 37

New Jersey Portable School -- Union County Correspondence

1923

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 38

Bethlehem (?) (unreadable -- original tab torn) -- F.E. Rogers -- Sparrows Point Motors (includes contract and blueprints)

1926–1927

Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 39

Bethlehem (?) (unreadable -- original tab torn) -- Dundalk Co. -- Contracts

1923

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1-2

Woodlawn Land Co. (includes correspondence, blueprints, and specifications)

1925

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 3-4

Conlon & Mundy (includes contract, blueprints, and specifications)

1923

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5

Hope Natural Gas – Contracts

1925

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 6-7

Woodlawn Land Co. (includes correspondence, blueprints, specifications, and contract)

1923

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 8

WV Coal and Coke Co., Barnabus, WV -- Four Room Miners Houses

1930

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 9

E.E. White Coal Co. (includes contract, blueprints, and specifications)

1923

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 10-12

Vesta Coal Co. -- Order 5D2 (includes liens, contract, invoices, blueprints, and correspondence)

1927–1928

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 13

Dundalk Development Co. -- 5G5 -- Plans & Correspondence

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 14

Glogora Coal Co. -- Order 5H8 -- Correspondence

1924

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 15

Coal River Colliers -- Order 524 – Correspondence

1925

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 16-17

Carnegie Land Co. -- Order 5K5 (includes correspondence, contracts, and plans)

1926

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 18

Clear Creek Coal Co. -- Order 5C1 -- Contract

1930

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19

DuPont Rayon Co. -- 1 Grandstand, Order 5B3

1930

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20

T.C. Williams -- Contract

1928

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 21

Tessia E. Vickers -- Correspondence

1927–1928

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22

E.O. Shelby -- Specifications

1924

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23

Moran, James Contract -- Turner Station, MD

1926

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 24

Electro Metallurgical Co. -- Jennings Residence -- 5D1 -- Invoices

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 25

Electro Metallurgical Co. -- Order 5F2 -- Specifications

1925

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 26

Electro Metallurgical Co. -- Repairs to Res. # 5G7 -- Correspondence

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 27

Hardy Coal Co. -- Order 5K5 (includes plans, contracts, and correspondence)

1923

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 28

Bethlehem Steel -- Land & Improvement Co. -- Invoices

1924

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 29

Shannopin Coal Co. (includes contract, correspondence)

1927

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 30

Boone County Coal Co. Corp. -- Order 5G9 -- 10 Houses -- Des. -- 505A -- Specifications

1923

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 31

Harford County Board of Education, Belair, MD -- Order 5H2 (includes specifications and blueprints)

1931

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 32

Allen & Garcia Co. -- Butler Consolidated Coal Co., Wildwood, PA, Order 5E3 -- Correspondence

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 33

Atlas Powder Co. -- Contract File (Miscellaneous) (includes blueprints)

1924

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 34

Hope Natural Gas -- Cont. Correspondence (includes contract and plans)

1927

Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 35

Electro-Metallurgical Co. -- Order 5M4 -- Correspondence

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1

Bethlehem Steel Co. (includes blueprints and contracts)

1923

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2

Emil R. Haroth -- Contract

1924

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3

Electro Metallurgical Co. -- 44 Houses -- Order 5M5 (includes correspondence, estimates, and invoices)

1931

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4

Dunkirk Apartments -- Revisions

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5

DuPont Rayon Co. -- Orders: 96 Houses -- 5H9; 47 Houses -- 5H7; 53 Houses -- 5E7 (includes blueprints, invoices, and contract)

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6

Elkhorn Piney Coal Mining Co. -- Order 5E9; 18 Houses, Store (includes invoices and blueprints)

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 7

Elkhorn Piney Coal Mining Co. -- Order 5L3, 25 Houses

1930

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 8

Elkhorn Piney Coal Mining Co., Kimberly, WV -- Orders: 5B2, 5B2A, 5D1, 5D2, 5F5 (includes specifications, invoices, and blueprints)

1931

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 9

New Kanawha Power Co. -- Orders 5A2 and 5K1 -- Correspondence

1928

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 10

New Kanawha Power Co. -- Orders 5J1 and 5M1 (includes correspondence and estimates)

1930

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 11

Mac Alpin Coal Co. -- Order 5J2 (includes correspondence and invoices)

1924

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 12

Leckie Smokeless Coal Co. -- Orders 5M1 & 5M1A (includes blueprints and specifications)

1931

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 13

Leckie Smokeless Coal Co. -- Order 5A1 (includes correspondence and plans)

1932

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 14

Morrison Coal Co. -- Contract

1924

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15

Monitor Coal & Coke Co. -- Contract

1923

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 16

E.L. Wilson, Presbytery of Kanawha (includes contract and blueprints)

1926

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 17

Lake Superior Coal Co. -- Fire House -- Correspondence

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 18

Kappers Stores Inc. -- Orders 5F1 & 5F2 -- Correspondence

1931

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 19

Lake Superior Coal Co. -- Orders 5C1 & 5D8 (includes correspondence and blueprints)

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20

A.B. Kline & J.Q. McClure, Pittsburgh, PA -- Correspondence

1923–1924

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 21

Lake Superior Coal Co. -- Church, Order 5E2 -- Correspondence

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 22

Louisville Cement Co. (includes contract, blueprints, and estimates)

1923

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 23

Louisville Cement Co. -- Orders 5M1 & 5H27 (includes contracts and correspondence)

1923

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 24

Lamson Co. -- Order 5H10 and 104, Apartment Houses (includes specifications and blueprints)

1923

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25

Bethlehem Mining Co. (includes contract, specifications, and correspondence)

1926

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26

Shannopin Coal Co. -- Steel Gates, Order 5F11 (includes blueprints and correspondence)

1928

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 27-28

Ohio Valley Building Co. -- Order 5F12 (includes correspondence, contract, and blueprints)

1928

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 29

The Opperman Coal Co. -- Contract

1923

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 30

Baltimore County Board of Education, Arbutus School, MD -- Order 5G1

1932

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 31

Tridelphia District Board of Education, Logan County, WV -- Contract

1926

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 32

Elkhorn Piney Coal Mining Co. -- Theatre Building, Order 5K2-3 -- Contract

1929

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 33

Electro-Metallurgical Co. -- Orders 5J5 & 5L2 (includes contract, correspondence, and invoices)

1930

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 34

Foundation Co. (includes correspondence and specifications)

1925

Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 35

Electro-Metallurgical Co. -- Community Building at Glen Ferns, WV (includes blueprints and specifications)

1928