title: Valentine Leight General Store
text: # Valentine Leight General Store
  
  The Valentine Leight General Store, also known as V. Leight New Store, Leight Mercantile Co., and Garden of Eva, is a historic general store located at House Springs, Jefferson County, Missouri. It was built in three stages between about 1894 and 1910, and is a one- to two-story, frame building with Late Victorian style detailing. It is sheathed in weatherboard and measures 88 feet wide by 40 feet $deep.^{:5}$
  
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
  
  