{"nrhp_refnum":"09000121","name":"Pyne, Q.M., Store","other_names":["Palisades Restaurant"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"168 Village St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Eggleston","county":"Giles County","state":"VA","lat":37.287698971000054,"lon":-80.61827387699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-03-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A pair of attached, multi-story brick commercial buildings at 168 Village Street in Eggleston, Giles County, Virginia. The north building was completed in 1926 and the south building was added about 1929.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the store is an excellent example of a two-part, Commercial Style small-town commercial building from the period between the World Wars. It is one of the best-preserved general stores in a sparsely populated rural county. Its spacious, adaptable design and sturdy construction allowed many generations of continued use for several functions.","narrative":"Two attached brick buildings at the heart of Eggleston, a small village on the New River in Giles County, Virginia, make up the former Q.M. Pyne Store. The north building, three stories tall, was finished in 1926 for the Whittaker family's general store. A two-story building to the south followed about 1929 and housed a Chevrolet dealership and repair shop. Both are built into a hillside and follow the plain Commercial Style, with flat roofs, parapets, sign tablets and large windowed storefronts. Inside, the main floor keeps its pressed-tin ceiling, custom wooden shelving and a 15-foot general store counter. Over time the buildings also held a post office and a doctor's office. The Pyne family ran the store from the late 1930s until it closed in 2000. The property was listed for its architecture, as a well-preserved example of an interwar small-town general store. The buildings have been largely vacant, and conversion to a restaurant is under way.","period_of_significance":"1926-ca. 1929","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Commercial Style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Largely vacant for several years, with work in progress to convert the buildings into a restaurant while retaining the exterior appearance and the interior plan and historic finishes.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.299892-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/6808/41680885/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/09000121.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000121/791476cbe7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000121/791476cbe7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Skye Marthaler","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Q._M._Pyne_Store.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Skye Marthaler</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Q._M._Pyne_Store.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680885","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q._M._Pyne_Store","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713108"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/giles-county/pyne-q-m-store-09000121/"}