330 W Main St

From the National Register nomination

Two-story, three-bay, side-gabled painted brick house set on a limestone rubble foundation raised several feet above sidewalk level. The building's facade bricks are laid in Flemish bond with queen closers, while the other elevations have three-course American bond brickwork. The elaborate main cornice employs scrolled modillions, Wall-of-Troy frets, and punch-and-denul work. The rear wall retains an original molded brick cornice. Interior-end brick chimneys occupy the gable ends, which are window-less except for the small attic windows in the west gable. Character-defining interior features include original roof framing, second-floor trim and flooring; mid-nineteenth-century first- and second-floor mantels, and a staircase with a round handrail and scrolled tread brackets. The house was built for Casper (or Gaspar) and Margaret Barger Coiner in 1806 (according to tradition), which would make it the district's oldest surviving building. According to one nineteenth-century account the house was also Waynesboro's first brick dwelling. The home's form and detail support an early nineteenth-century date of construction. As originally constructed the house had a hall-parlor plan with a centered front door. During the late antebellum period the layout was changed to a side-passage plan, and the main entry was relocated to its present east-bay position. Later occupants included George Baylor and Judge George W. Greiner, who owned it for much of the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1937 it was acquired by W. Doyle Quesenbery, who used it as an office. The house was rehabilitated by Wine Bros. Contractors of Verona in 1972-73. Also known as the Coiner-Quesenbery House, the property was individually listed in the National Register in 1976.

Information supplied by Loth, "Casper Coiner House;" Hawke, History of Waynesboro, 51-53, 55.