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Photographer: J. J. Prats
Taken: July 24, 2021
Caption: -13- Koppers Stores -13-
Additional Description: Wikipedia: The Houston Coal Company Store, also known as the Koppers Store, is an intact example of a coal company store, located at Carswell, West Virginia. The 1923 Italian Renaissance building possesses a detailed brick exterior and a clay tile roof, with skylights at the roof's peak. The store served a small mining community of Carswell, West Virginia, first for the Houston Coal Company and later for the Koppers Coal Company. Another store, now disappeared, served the upper end of the long hollow. The store is surrounded by an expansive lawn, bordered by a stream.
Submitted: August 3, 2021, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p601471
File Size: 9.114 Megabytes

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