EGGLESTON — Looking in her rear-view mirror at Giles
County the day after she graduated high school, Shaena Muldoon was sure she’d never live there again.

She traveled across the world as an event planner, planning festivals in Vienna, Denver and Washington.

But in 2004, Muldoon’s brother, Patrick, bought an old general store in Eggleston. When she walked into the then-empty building during a visit, she said she immediately envisioned it as a restaurant.

“It’s such a beautiful building, it just spoke to me,” Muldoon said. “My life took a very sharp turn.”

Muldoon spent the next few years learning the restaurant business and renovating the building, and opened the Palisades Restaurant in January.

According to the National Register of Historic Places, the building was Pyne’s General Store and a hub of Eggleston from the 1920s until 2000, when the store closed.

Because it was such an old building, it needed renovation and updating, Muldoon said.
Most of the building, including the pressed tin ceiling, wood floors and windows, are original. But the plumbing and furnace had to be replaced, and there was minimal electricity and no air conditioning in the upper floors of the three-story building, Muldoon said.

“This used to be a vital community, and this was the hangout in town,” Muldoon said. “I’m sort of hoping by reviving this building it revives other things in town.”

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