Despite changes over the years and an unsympathetic commercial interior, Prentis Store is one of the best surviving pre-Revolutionary stores in the Chesapeake. Its exterior is unusually costly for a commercial building of its time, built of brick and finished with a modillion cornice and a pediment turned toward Duke of Gloucester Street. The original plan is perceptible in the fenestration. The front door gave public access to a sizable salesroom with shelves
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Prentis Store
1740. 1928–1931 and 1972, restoration. Duke of Gloucester and Colonial sts.
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