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Hite Store, also known as Riverview, is a historic
general store A general merchant store (also known as general merchandise store, general dealer, village shop, or country store) is a rural or small-town store that carries a general line of merchandise. It carries a broad selection of merchandise, someti ...
in Lowesville,
Amherst County, Virginia Amherst County is a county, located in the Piedmont region and near the center of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The county is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area, and its county seat is also named Amhers ...
. It was built in 1869, and is a two-story, L-shaped brick building in the
Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...
style. It has a hipped roof and features a full-width porch. Contributing outbuildings are three frame-constructed, gable-roofed and weatherboard-clad one-story buildings, and a gable-roofed log barn. an
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/ref> It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1997.


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Buildings and structures in Amherst County, Virginia Commercial buildings completed in 1869 Greek Revival architecture in Virginia Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Amherst County, Virginia 1869 establishments in Virginia Brick buildings and structures in Virginia {{AmherstCountyVA-NRHP-stub