This two-story building was moved log by log and reconstructed from the remains of a false-fronted building from Dudley, a ghost town north of Alma, Colorado. It was moved sometime between 1957 and opening day in 1959. It is the only building that was not moved intact to South Park City and is now South Park City's general store. The people of the mining camps and towns came here for their supplies. Almost everything was sold here. The items ranged from buttons to shoes, from flour sacks to guns.
The store is laid out with food items on one side and dry goods on the other. Old cracker barrels accompany a cheese table set with an authentic round of goat cheese from the 1880s enclosed in a glass case. The cheese was a unique gift to the museum donated by friends of museum founder Leon Snyder. Old-time favorites such as Horehound Syrup and Towle's Log Cabin Maple Syrup packaged in a tin can represent a pioneer log cabin. Preserved raspberries in small crocks, spices of tartar, cloves, ginger, and pepper line the many shelves. Butter molds, china crocks, rolling pins, and cooking utensils are stacked high for the pioneer woman. A wooden cabinet stores dried raisins, beans, sunflower seeds, rice, and peas. The general store also served as the town's post office. At the rear of the store are post office boxes from Garo, one of the earliest post offices in the South Park Area.
The name comes from the poem "The Lodge Room over Simpkin's Store" by Lawrence N. Greenleaf written in 1898.
