Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 04001389 | Architectural style Outer Banks Shingle Added to NRHP 23 December 2004 | |
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Location 4008 S. Virginia Dare Trail, Nags Head, North Carolina Built 1914 (1914), 1933, 1944 | ||
Mattie Midgett Store and House, also known as Nellie Myrtle Pridgen's Beachcomber Museum, is a historic home and general store located at Nags Head, Dare County, North Carolina. The store was built in 1914, and the house in 1933. The store is a two-story frame Outer Banks Shingle Style building with a hipped shingle roof. A one-story, hipped-roof, one-room addition was built in 1944. The store was moved to its present site in 1932. The house is a two-story, T -shaped, single-pile frame dwelling with steeply pitched gable roofs.
The store houses the Outer Banks Beachcomber Museum, which features a collection of beach glass, feathers, shells, sand, bricks and bottles found on area beaches.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.