Mattie Midgett Store and House

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Mattie Midgett Store and House
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Location4008 S. Virginia Dare Trail, Nags Head, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°57′23″N75°37′28″W / 35.95639°N 75.62444°W / 35.95639; -75.62444 Coordinates: 35°57′23″N75°37′28″W / 35.95639°N 75.62444°W / 35.95639; -75.62444
Arealess than one acre
Built1914 (1914), 1933, 1944
Architectural styleOuter Banks Shingle
NRHP reference # 04001389 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 23, 2004

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. [2]

General store rural or small town store

A general merchant store is a rural or small town store that carries a general line of merchandise. It carries a broad selection of merchandise, sometimes in a small space, where people from the town and surrounding rural areas come to purchase all their general goods. The store carries routine stock and obtains special orders from warehouses. It differs from a convenience store or corner shop in that it will be the main shop for the community rather than a convenient supplement.

Nags Head, North Carolina Town in North Carolina, United States

Nags Head is a town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. It is a busy vacation spot because of its beaches and sand dunes of Jockey's Ridge. The population was 2,757 at the 2010 census.

Dare County, North Carolina U.S. county in North Carolina, United States

Dare County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 33,920. Its county seat is Manteo. The county is named after Virginia Dare, the first child born in the Americas to English parents, who was born in what is now Dare County.

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. [3] [4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. [1]

National Register of Historic Places Federal list of historic sites in the United States

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
  2. Beth Keane (June 2004). "Mattie Midgett Store and House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
  3. Outer Banks Beachcomber Museum
  4. Marimar McNaughton (June 2014). "The Beachcomber". Wrightsville Beach Magazine. Retrieved 7 December 2014.