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Wintergreen County Store

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Built
  
1908

Architectural style
  
Early Commercial

VLR #
  
062-0117

Area
  
1,214 m²

Architect
  
Harris, Grover C.

NRHP Reference #
  
05001233

Opened
  
1908

Added to NRHP
  
9 November 2005

Wintergreen County Store

Location
  
Junction of State Routes 151 and 627, 1368 Rockfish Valley Highway, near Nellysford, Virginia

Wintergreen County Store is a historic building built originally as a country store located near Nellysford, Nelson County, Virginia. It is a one- and two-story, shed roofed, frame vernacular building with weatherboard siding on a masonry and concrete foundation. The store was built in four phases: the original store was a one-story, one-room building with a porch, built between 1908 and 1909; the second was living space added in the late 1920s; the third phase added a two-story section with a two-story porch; and the fourth phase was added by Wintergreen Ski Resort as a welcoming center when it first opened in 1975. After closing as an office and gift shop for the Wintergreen resort, the building was used as a meeting place for Peace in the Valley, an Episcopal Church mission. Thereafter it served as home for the Spruce Creek Gallery with its wonderful collection of crafts by local artists for 12 years. It now serves as the Rockfish Valley Foundation Natural History Center and is affiliated with the Virginia Museum of Natural History.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

References

Wintergreen County Store Wikipedia