The Wintergreen Country 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.
Wintergreen Country Store | |
 Front of the store | |
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| Location | 1368 State Route 151 at Wintergreen, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 37°53′6″N 78°53′56″W / 37.88500°N 78.89889°W |
| Built | 1908 |
| Architect | Grover C. Harris |
| Architectural style | Early Commercial |
| NRHP reference No. | 05001233[1] |
| VLR No. | 062-0117 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | November 9, 2005 |
| Designated VLR | September 14, 2005[2] |
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 a gallery featuring local artists. It now serves as the Rockfish Valley Foundation Natural History Center and is affiliated with the Virginia Museum of Natural History.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form" (PDF). Wintergreen Country Store. Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Historic Resources. 2008-11-21. and Accompanying photograph