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The Beaconsfield Supply Store is a one-story brick building in rural Ringgold County, Iowa,
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. Built in 1916, it became the birthplace of the
Hy-Vee Hy-Vee, Inc. () is an employee-owned chain of supermarkets in the Midwestern and Southern United States, with more than 280 locations in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and soon Indiana, Kentucky, ...
chain of stores when Charles Hyde and David Vredenburg opened a general store together in 1930. The building was later used for a variety of purposes, including a
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. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. The building serves as the community center for
Beaconsfield Beaconsfield ( ) is a market town and civil parish within the unitary authority of Buckinghamshire, England, west-northwest of central London and south-southeast of Aylesbury. Three other towns are within : Gerrards Cross, Amersham and High W ...
, which, with 15 residents as of 2021, has been described as the smallest incorporated city in
Iowa Iowa () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wiscon ...
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Beaconsfield Supply Store Hy-Vee Commercial buildings completed in 1916 National Register of Historic Places in Ringgold County, Iowa Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa 1916 establishments in Iowa