Pearce General Store | |
 The store in June 2019 | |
   | |
| Location | Southwest corner of Ghost Town Trail & Pearce Road, Pearce, Arizona |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 31°54′16″N109°49′16″W / 31.90444°N 109.82111°W |
| NRHP reference No. | 78000541 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 16, 1978 |
Pearce General Store is an historic building in Pearce, Arizona. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [2]
The store was built in 1893. [3] The store was built by the Soto Brothers, originally a lumber structure, but within two months it was replaced with the current adobe structure. During the town's heyday in the late 1890s, it was the most important building in the mining boomtown, serving as the mercantile and banking center, as well as the post office. [4] While the town faded in the 1900s, the nearby mine which was the main employer in the area, declined, and by the end of World War I, the mine was only worked sporadically through World War II. Even has the town diminished, the store continued to serve local ranchers and tourists. Albert Roth purchased the store in 1936, who sold it Irvine Cornish in 1939. In 1942 Raymond Dooley, president of Lincoln College in Illinois, who retained it until 1968 when it was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. John Thurman of Chicago. All of the owners insisted on retaining the 1890s fixtures and appearance of the store. [5] When it was entered on the NHRP, it had been in continuous operation as a general store since its inception in 1893. [4] From 1988 through 1990, the building was used as a museum of western memorabilia, until it closed in November 1990, and its contents sold at auction. [6]
The building is on the southwest corner of Ghost Town Trail and Pearce Road, facing east. The adjoining lumber and wagon yards are south of the store. It is a rectangular building measuring 180 feet by 45 feet, with a gabled roof, and a boomtown facade on the front of the building. There is a shed roof porch running the width of the building, with a double entry door, flanked by large arched windows and pressed metal pilasters. Windows on the sides of the building are also arched, but not as large. There is a 20 square foot basement beneath the store, reached by a trap door. The ceiling is 14 feet high, and covered with embossed metal. When it was entered into the NHRP, ten-foot shelves lined the side walls, with rolling ladders. Original fixtures included a pot-bellied stove, safe, roll-top desk, 5-drawer cash register, glass showcases, and other mercantile paraphernalia. [7]
The Wilson Building is an historic 8-story building in the Main Street district of downtown Dallas, Texas. The building was completed in 1904 and patterned after the Palais Garnier in Paris, France. The historic structure fronts Main Street on the south, Ervay Street on the east, and Elm Street on the north. The Wilson building was the tallest structure in Dallas from 1904–1909 and was considered the premier commercial structure west of the Mississippi. The Wilson Building is situated across from the flagship Neiman Marcus Building and is adjacent to the Mercantile National Bank Building.
Garnet is a ghost town in Granite County, Montana, United States. A thriving mining town in the 1890s, Garnet's population declined when local hard rock mines closed. The remaining buildings have been preserved and are open to visitors. The site is managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
The Massie Variety Store is a historic commercial building located at 110 South Main Street in New Canton, Illinois. John Webb built the two-story brick Italianate building between 1848 and 1850 as a mercantile store. Webb sold the building to Amos Morey, who added Melville D. Massie as a partner; by 1872, Massie had become the store's only owner. The store became one of the largest in the region by the 1890s, and it had taken on other roles in the community. An opera house operated on the upper story from 1865 until the 1900s, and Massie served as an agent for local farmers who traded their products along the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Massie's son Harry began renting the storefront in 1918; in the following decades, it served as a drug store, ice cream parlor, grocery store, and post office before closing for good in 1948. Roger Dudley purchased the building from the Massie family in 1962 and converted it to a toy store; his business, later an antique store, operated until the 1980s.
Pearce, Arizona, and Sunsites, Arizona, are adjacent unincorporated communities in the Sulphur Springs Valley of Cochise County, Arizona, United States. The two communities are often referred to as Pearce–Sunsites, Pearce/Sunsites, or Pearce Sunsites.
The John B. Ragland Mercantile Company Building, also known as Raglands, is a historic building at 201 E. Kleberg Ave. in Kingsville, Texas. It was designed by Jules Leffland and was built in 1909 to replace a small frame store built by John Ragland in 1904. He operated the store until his death in 1908. Before he died, Ragland sold the lots and store and it was incorporated as the John B. Ragland Mercantile Co. The store sold dry goods, millinery, suits, pants, shirts, cloaks, skirts, hats and shoes.
A Chinatown developed in Phoenix in the 1870s as the predominantly single male Chinese population self-segregated primarily to provide cultural support to each other in a place where they faced significant discrimination. They came to dominate certain types of jobs and made an impression on the greater community with their celebrations of Chinese holidays. Other aspects of their culture, primarily gambling and the smoking of opium were viewed less favorably, and in the 1890s, they were forced to establish a new Chinatown several blocks away from the prior prime downtown location, where their community would be "less visible".
The Johannesburg Manufacturing Company Store is a company store located at 10816 M-32 East in Johannesburg, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
The Kahlert Mercantile Store is a historic commercial building in Browerville, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1883 as Browerville was springing up around a newly built railroad line. The simple wooden building with a false front contained retail space on the ground floor and a community meeting hall upstairs. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 for having local significance in the themes of commerce and exploration/settlement. It was nominated for being a highly intact example of the vernacular commercial architecture erected in Minnesota's railroad boomtowns.
The East Jordan Lumber Company Store Building is a commercial building located at 104 Main Street in East Jordan, Michigan. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It is next to, and shares a wall with, the Votruba Block; both buildings have been rehabilitated to form the Main Street Center office complex.
The Votruba Block is a commercial building located at 112 Main Street in East Jordan, Michigan. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. It is next to, and shares a wall with, the East Jordan Lumber Company Store Building; both buildings have been rehabilitated to form the Main Street Center office complex.
The Brigham City Co-op was one of the most successful cooperative enterprises of the Mormons in Utah.
The Missouri Lumber and Mining Company (MLM) was a large timber corporation with headquarters and primary operations in southeast Missouri. The company was formed by Pennsylvania lumbermen who were eager to exploit the untapped timber resources of the Missouri Ozarks to supply lumber, primarily used in construction, to meet the demand of U.S. westward expansion. Its primary operations were centered in Grandin, a company town it built starting c. 1888. The lumber mill there grew to be the largest in the country at the turn of the century and Grandin's population peaked around 2,500 to 3,000. As the timber resources were exhausted, the company had to abandon Grandin around 1910. It continued timber harvesting in other parts of Missouri for another decade. While some of the buildings in Grandin were relocated, many of the remaining buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as part of the state's historic preservation plan which considered the MLM a significant technological and economic contributor to Missouri.
Columbine or Columbine Gold Camp is a former gold mining community in Routt County, Colorado, United States. Now it is an unincorporated community, historic district, and a rental cabin resort. It dates from around 1895. It was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
The W. D. Martinez General Merchandise Store is an historic building located in Benson, Arizona. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 11, 1994. It was built in 1921 by William D. Martinez, an immigrant from Sonora, Mexico who created the store to serve the Hispanic community which was situated just to its east.
The John H. Norton and Company Store is an historic structure in Willcox, Arizona. Built circa 1880, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church is a historic church located in Pearce, Arizona. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
