414 W Main St

From the National Register nomination

Two-story, two-bay commercial building whose facade has been heavily altered. While the ca. 1950 metal-framed storefront retains large display windows, tall transoms, and separate entries to the ground-floor commercial space and upper-level stairhall, the upper story's original brickwork is veneered with modern stretcher-bond brick that links it to the adjoining building (412 W. Main), and the onginal fenestration pattern has been modified with the insertion of two double-hung six-over-six sash with inoperable shutters where once there were three windows. The building's side elevations retain their original character, revealing that the onginal portion of the building had three levels. A two-story concrete block addition, with cast lintels and sills at sash windows, was made to the rear of the building ca. 1900. The interior retains high ceilings in the main commercial space, which was most recently used as a hair salon. J-L. Barksdale Furniture occupied the building for most of its history, through at least 1971. (Shaw, Ranzim and Wood, "Waynesboro Downtown Historic District"; Wells, "A Distant Past,” part 1; and Bowman, Waynesboro Days of Yore vol. 1, 19).