Coffren House, Store, 10007 Croom Road, Croom, Prince George's County, MD
Summary
Significance: The Coffren Store is a rare example of a well-preserved, mid 19th-century general merchandise store. Small local stores of this type one-room utilitarian structures including a Post Office once commonly dotted the rural landscape of the county. Most have long since disappeared, and the few others remaining have been altered. The Coffren Store is the only intact example in the county. The store was built for John W. Coffren, a prosperous merchant and tobacco planter whose dwelling house sits just south of the store.
Survey number: HABS MD-988-A
Building/structure dates: ca. 1853 Initial Construction
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Tags
general stores
commerce
postal service
croom acres
coffren
house
coffren house
store
croom
croom road
prince george
maryland
jack e boucher
john w coffren
historic american buildings survey
t klugh
catherine c lavoie
susan g pearl
gail rothrock
prince george county
ultra high resolution
high resolution
post offices
library of congress
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Coffren, John W
Rothrock, Gail, field team
Pearl, Susan G, field team
Klugh, T, transmitter
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Lavoie, Catherine C, historian
Location
Croom Acres
,
38.75250, -76.76417
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html