4008 S. Virginia Dare Trail, Nags Head, North Carolina. County/parish: Dare.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 23, 2004. NRIS 04001389.
2 contributing buildings.Also known as:
Mattie Midgett Store and House, also known as Nellie Myrtle Pridgen's Beachcomber Museum, is a historic home and general store located at Nags Head, Dare County, North Carolina. The store was built in 1914, and the house in 1933. The store is a two-story frame Outer Banks Shingle Style building with a hipped shingle roof. A one-story, hipped-roof, one-room addition was built in 1944. The store was moved to its present site in 1932. The house is a two-story, T -shaped, single-pile frame dwelling with steeply pitched gable roofs.
The store houses the Outer Banks Beachcomber Museum, which features a collection of beach glass, feathers, shells, sand, bricks and bottles found on area beaches.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719889