{"nrhp_refnum":"93001543","name":"Davis Brothers Store","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E. Main St. N side, just E of jct. with Flint Hill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"East Bend","county":"Yadkin County","state":"NC","lat":36.21688076600003,"lon":-80.50736122199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-01-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Health/Medicine"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick commercial building on East Main Street in East Bend, Yadkin County, North Carolina, erected in 1913, with a frame storage barn behind it dating from the 1930s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the store exemplifies the role of the general store in small North Carolina towns during the first half of the twentieth century, and is a well-preserved example of brick commercial architecture from the first quarter of the century. It also cites its long association with Dr. Rosebud Morse Garriott, one of the state's earliest women dentists, whose second-floor office was in the building from 1917.","narrative":"Built in 1913 by brothers Henry E. and William C. Davis, this two-story brick store on East Main Street in East Bend served as a general store, selling dry goods, hardware, cedar shingles, and farm supplies. Henry Davis ran it for more than forty years until his retirement in 1956. The building also hosted a polling place, a Masonic meeting hall, and one of only two long distance telephones in the community. A shed porch on brick posts, added within a few years of construction, is considered a rare surviving example of its kind among such stores. The interior retains original molded shelving, chamfered posts, and beaded board walls. Dr. Rosebud Morse Garriott, one of North Carolina's earliest women dentists, practiced on the second floor from 1917 until shortly before her death in 1980. The building is listed for its commercial history, its architecture, and its association with her work in dentistry.","period_of_significance":"1913-1943","architect_builder":"Henry E. and William C. Davis (builders)","architectural_style":"Commercial Style","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Restored in part by its present owners for use as a store; the rest of the building was being prepared for use as a museum at the time of the nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.405903-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/7228/47722890/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/93001543.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001543/4e6b8dcd5f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001543/4e6b8dcd5f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"G Keith Hall","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Davis_Brothers_Store.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">G Keith Hall</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:Davis_Brothers_Store.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722890","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Brothers_Store","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20709306"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/yadkin-county/davis-brothers-store-93001543/"}