Barker General Store is a historic general store

General store

A general store, general merchandise store, or village shop is a rural or small town store that carries a general line of merchandise. It carries a broad selection of merchandise, sometimes in a small space, where people from the town and surrounding rural areas come to purchase all their general...

 located at Beecher Hollow

Edinburg, New York

Edinburg is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The population was 1,384 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the Edinburgh in Scotland....

 in Saratoga County, New York

Saratoga County, New York

Saratoga County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 219,607. It is part of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county seat is Ballston Spa...

. The main block was constructed in 1847 and is a -story, gable-roofed rectangular building. A 2-story, shed-roofed addition was added in 1870. It features a tall portico

Portico

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls...

 supported by four Tuscan order

Tuscan order

Among canon of classical orders of classical architecture, the Tuscan order's place is due to the influence of the Italian Sebastiano Serlio, who meticulously described the five orders including a "Tuscan order", "the solidest and least ornate", in his fourth book of Regole generalii di...

 turned wood columns. It is an example of transitional Federal

Federal architecture

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 / Greek Revival

Greek Revival architecture

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 commercial architecture. A concealed area is believed to have served as a hiding place for escaped slaves being transported on the Underground Railroad

Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. The term is also applied to the abolitionists,...

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 2002.