{"nrhp_refnum":"02000595","name":"Rogers' Store","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of VA 615 and VA 612","address_restricted":false,"city":"Surry","county":"Surry County","state":"VA","lat":37.09562657600003,"lon":-77.00391977699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-05-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Communications"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural crossroads general store complex in the Carsley community of Surry County, Virginia, made up of an 1827 store, an 1894 two-story store, a 1960 voting shed, a ruined outbuilding and a bungalow foundation. It sits at the intersection of Routes 615 and 612.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the store served as the community hub of Carsley for 130 years, housing a post office, pharmacy, radio repair shop and the Surry-Sussex Telephone Company. It also holds that the 1827 and 1894 buildings are well preserved examples of their respective periods of construction, joined by a breezeway that left the original fabric largely unaltered.","narrative":"Rogers' Store is a crossroads retail complex in the Carsley community of Surry County, Virginia. The oldest building, a one-and-one-half-story store with a retail room and heated counting room, dates from 1827 and was later known as Gwaltney's Store. About 1894, J.W. (Watt) Rogers built a two-story gable-front store in front of it, with a full-length porch, turned posts, carved brackets and original built-in shelving. A covered breezeway joins the two buildings. The site also includes a cinderblock voting shed from about 1960, a deteriorating wooden outbuilding and the foundation of a bungalow destroyed by Hurricane Hazel. The store closed in 1952 after serving the community for 130 years. Store records show it acted as a post office, pharmacy, radio repair shop and home of the Surry-Sussex Telephone Company. Its listing rests on its role as a community center and on the well-preserved construction of its two main buildings.","period_of_significance":"1827-1952","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The 1.28-acre property was donated to the Surry County Historical Society and Museums in 1999. The store closed in 1952, the form lists current function as work in progress, and the wooden outbuilding is deteriorating with a collapsed roof.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.784576-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/8/6839/41683908/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/02000595.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000595/63b4dc4371-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000595/63b4dc4371-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Ser Amantio di Nicolao","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rogers_and_Gwaltney_Stores.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ser Amantio di Nicolao</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rogers_and_Gwaltney_Stores.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683908","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers%27_Store","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15272955"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/surry-county/rogers-store-02000595/"}