Anthony Kinzer is leading an effort to create a local historic district in the old black neighborhood although he has learned that some of the buildngs have been destroyed to qualify for the national register.

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So Kinzer is doing the next best thing. He wants the city’s Historic Landmarks Commission to designate blocks bounded by Washington, Capitol and Smith streets and Leon Sullivan Way a local historic area. Commission members heard his proposal Thursday.

Commission members would be breaking new ground if they create a local historic district, said Billy Joe Peyton, the group’s chairman and a history professor at West Virginia State University.

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