Alex B. Mahood

Alexander Blount Mahood (March 17, 1888 – December 25, 1970) was a Bluefield, West Virginia-based architect.

Mahood was the architect for the West Virginia Hotel (1923) and many of his major residential works are in the South Bluefield area.

[4] Mahood designed mansions for magnates of the southern coalfields, and embellished Bluefield's residential districts with some of the grandest Georgian Revival houses in the state.

[5] He designed the Women's Dormitory at the West Virginia University in Morgantown, United States Steel Building in Gary, Skyway Drive-In Theater in Brush Fork, the Deco-Style Mercer County Courthouse (1930–1931) in Princeton and the Guyan Theater in Logan.

He also designed a number of coal company offices and stores in the southern West Virginia region.

Page Coal and Coke Company Store , Pageton , 1914.
Pocahontas Fuel Company Store , Jenkinjones , 1917.
Wyoming Hotel, Mullens , 1918.
Frank S. Easley House , Bluefield , 1919.
Itmann Company Store , Itmann , 1923.
County Courthouse , Princeton , 1930.
Geriatrics Building, Weston State Hospital , 1950.
Student Center, Concord University , 1962.
Main Building, West Virginia University at Parkersburg , 1967.