The New Market Hotel and Store is a historic commercial building in

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, United States. It was built in 1897 to house a general store at ground level and a small hotel on the second floor. With The property was listed on the

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in 1980 for its significance in the themes of architecture and commerce. It was nominated for being a well-preserved example of the late-19th-century commercial buildings constructed along the main streets of towns in

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, and the only surviving example from

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The New Market Hotel and Store stands on the north side of New Market's small business district. It has a footprint of about by and rises two stories. It is constructed of red brick, with yellow brick

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s and detailing. At ground level the main façade has a three-bay storefront on the right and a narrow bay on the left with a single door opening onto a staircase to the second floor. The second story has four double-hung two-over-two windows with stone

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s and lightly arched brick

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s. The top of the main façade has a

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highly ornamented with contrasting red and yellow brick

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and a semicircular projection at center.

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