Peerless Coal Company Store is a historic company store building located at Vivian

Vivian, West Virginia

Vivian is an unincorporated census-designated place in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. Vivian is located along U.S. Route 52 southeast of Kimball. As of the 2010 census, its population was 82....

, McDowell County, West Virginia

McDowell County, West Virginia

McDowell County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The land that became McDowell was originally part of Tazewell County, Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,113. Its county seat is Welch. McDowell county is the southern-most county in the state, geographically...

. It was designed by noted architect Alex B. Mahood

Alex B. Mahood

Alexander Blount Mahood was a Bluefield, West Virginia-based architect.He was born at Lynchburg, Virginia in 1888 and attended the École des Beaux-Arts. He came to Bluefield in 1912 and set up business. He was the architect for the West Virginia Hotel and many of his major residential works are...

 and built in 1921, and the main block of the brick store building is two-stories with one-story flanking wings. It has a concrete parapet that defines the facade's roofline on both the two and one-story sections. It features a modern design

Modern architecture

Modern architecture is generally characterized by simplification of form and creation of ornament from the structure and theme of the building. It is a term applied to an overarching movement, with its exact definition and scope varying widely...

, irregular plan, stone foundation, and simple decoration.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

in 1992.