Birchrunville General Store | |
Location | Hollow and Flowing Springs Roads, at Birchrunville, West Vincent Township, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 40°7′51″N75°38′26″W / 40.13083°N 75.64056°W |
Area | 0.3 acres (0.12 ha) |
Built | 1898 |
Built by | Dewees, T.B. & I.L. |
Architectural style | Late Victorian |
NRHP reference No. | 78002368 [1] |
Added to NRHP | March 21, 1978 |
Birchrunville General Store is a historic general store located in West Vincent Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1898, and is a two-story, stone and frame, banked structure in a Late Victorian style. It has a mansard roof with fishscale slate and a jutting, short wooden bay window. It was built to house a general store and post office, with a meeting hall above and creamery below. [2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1] It is located in the Birchrunville Historic District.
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