The CITY-COUNTY BUILDING, Chapline St. between 15th and 16th Strs., is a massive three-story red brick building of Romanesque design trimmed with gray limestone. Above the central unit rises a square three-story bell and clock tower. The four corners of the north and south wings are surmounted by squat, domed towers. The building, deigned by J.S. Fairfax, was erected in 1876 by citizens of Wheeling and donated to the State as a capitol, but reverted to city in 1885 when capital was moved to Charleston..-West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain State, 1941, pg. 286.