Cana Store and Post Office

United States historic place


Cana Store and Post Office
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

35°58′24″N 80°34′38″W / 35.97333°N 80.57722°W / 35.97333; -80.57722
Area	less than one acre
Built	c. 1875 (1875), 1930s
Built by	Cain, James Harrison
NRHP reference No.	01001073^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 5, 2001

Cana Store and Post Office is a historic general store and post office building located near Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina. It was built about 1875, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame building with a gable roof. The front facade features a broad hip-roofed frame canopy added in the 1930s that serves as a porte-cochere. Also on the property is a contributing one-story woodshed built in the 1930s. The building housed a post office until 1954 and a general store until 1965.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Carolyn Rich Hines and Nancy Pulliam Sullivan (February 2001). "Cana Store and Post Office" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.