It was built in 1898, and is a two-story, front-gable, wood-frame building with a one-story front porch.

From the early 1900s (decade) until 1979, the building also housed the Lost River Post Office.

Also on the property is an outhouse that may have been built in the 1930s by a Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew.

[1] Temporarily closed in 2020, the store and the inn reopened in 2021 under new ownership.

This article about a property in Hardy County, West Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.