Coal House

The Coal House in Williamson, West Virginia is a novel building worked of coal brick work. The bituminous coal was quarried as pieces and dressed as stone utilizing 65 tons of coal from the adjacent Winifrede Seam. At the season of its development it was the main coal working in West Virginia. The coal brick work was nished for climate protection. Found contiguous the Mingo County Courthouse, it houses the Tug Valley Chamber of Commerce.

The building's development in 1933 was sorted out as a reputation stunt by O. W. Evans of the Norfolk and Western Railway, who wished to make an image of the "Billion Dollar Coalfield" fixated on Williamson. While it is known as the "Coal House", it has never been a habitation. West Virginia's second coal house was worked in 1959 in Lewisburg, West Virginia.