Houston Coal Company Store

United States historic place


Houston Coal Company Store
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


37°25′48″N 81°30′32″W / 37.43000°N 81.50889°W / 37.43000; -81.50889
Architectural style	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Italian Renaissance
MPS	Coal Company Stores in McDowell County MPS
NRHP reference No.	92000331
Added to NRHP	April 17, 1992^[1]

The Houston Coal Company Store, also known as the Koppers Store, is an intact example of a coal company store, located at Carswell, West Virginia. The 1923 Italian Renaissance building possesses a detailed brick exterior and a clay tile roof, with skylights at the roof's peak. The store served a small mining community of Carswell, West Virginia, first for the Houston Coal Company and later for the Koppers Coal Company. Another store, now disappeared, served the upper end of the long hollow. The store is surrounded by an expansive lawn, bordered by a stream.^[2]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ Stacy Stone (December 16, 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Houston Coal Company Store" (PDF). National Park Service. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)