You are here

West Virginia » The Springs » Monroe County » Alderson » Alderson's Store

Alderson's Store

-A A +A
1932, Walter F. Martens. 203 S. Monroe St.
  • Alderson's Store (State Historic Preservation Office, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Michael Gioulis)

This wonderfully sophisticated, virtually pristine Art Deco women's dress and gift shop has a onestory facade veneered with Indiana limestone. The facade is divided into three parts—two large plate glass show windows flanking a recessed entrance—separated by fluted pilasters topped with stylized urns. Above the cornice, with its wavelike decorations, a central parapet contains the single word Aldersons in relief. Inside, original fittings supplied by the Georgia Show Case Company (of Montgomery, Alabama) remain. Of solid walnut with inset pewter decorations, they include counters, shelves, dress racks, and mirrored millinery tables. Members of the Alderson family, who have published a brochure on their “shopping and architectural delight,” still own and operate the store. The building is a gem of a type that has virtually disappeared from America's commercial scene.

(The following Alderson entries are in Greenbrier County, north of the Greenbrier River.)

Writing Credits

Author: 
S. Allen Chambers Jr.
×

Data

What's Nearby

Alderson Memorial Bridge
C&O Passenger Depot
Old Greenbrier Baptist Church
The Cedars
Federal Correctional Institution for Women (Federal Industrial Institution for Women)

Citation

S. Allen Chambers Jr., "Alderson's Store", [Alderson, West Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/WV-01-MO23.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,