Valentine Leight General Store
Valentine Leight General Store | |
 Valentine Leight General Store, September 2014 | |
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| Location | 4566 Main St., House Springs, Missouri |
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| Coordinates | 38°24′37″N 90°34′9″W / 38.41028°N 90.56917°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | c. 1894-1910 |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian |
| NRHP reference No. | 92001014[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 18, 1992 |
The Valentine Leight General Store, also known as V. Leight New Store, Leight Mercantile Co., and Garden of Eva, is a historic general store located at House Springs, Jefferson County, Missouri. It was built in three stages between about 1894 and 1910, and is a one- to two-story, frame building with Late Victorian style detailing. It is sheathed in weatherboard and measures 88 feet wide by 40 feet deep.[2]: 5
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Mary M. Stiritz (April 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Valentine Leight General Store" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-01. (includes 8 photographs from 1991)
Categories:
- Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
- Victorian architecture in Missouri
- Commercial buildings completed in 1910
- Buildings and structures in Jefferson County, Missouri
- National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Missouri
- 1910 establishments in Missouri
- General stores in the United States
- St. Louis Area, Missouri Registered Historic Place stubs