420 W Main St

From the National Register nomination

This two-story bank building designed by Waynesboro architect R.G. Vance in the Classical Revival style occupies the southeast corner of the principal intersection in downtown. Constructed of buff-colored brick with two-story pilasters, the building features elegant cast-stone classical ornament at pilaster bases and capitals, door and window surrounds, and parapet-level entablature with modillion detail. Originally two bays wide on the Main Street elevation and six bays wide on the Wayne Avenue facade, the building incorporates a slightly projecting comer pavilion with ground-story entrances and upper-story paired arched double-hung windows. This pavilion treatment is also employed at the bank's original end bay and at the current end bay, added when 104 S. Wayne was incorporated into the building. The building's cast-stone door surrounds are embellished with segmentally arched hoods supported by scrolled consoles. Most of the bank's windows have operable double-hung sash, but on Main Street a fixed plate glass window and transom fills the first story's left bay. Cast-stone sills, lintels, keystones, and impost blocks frame the openings. A decoratively detailed alarm box, supported by wrought iron brackets, is attached to the Wayne Avenue facade. The ground-level storefront of the former commercial building at 418 W. Main, altered in the mid-twentieth century, has a fixed plate-glass window and transom. The building's second story remains essentally unchanged, with a tall parapet featuring an ornamental brick cornice, and four one-over-one double-hung sash set within segmentally arched decorative brick surrounds. Prior to 1908 the bank occupied a ca. 1830 brick building located on the same site. The Waynesboro Female Institute occupied a portion of this earlier building in the 1880s. The architect of the present 1908-1909 building, R.G. Vance, also designed the 1908 Presbyterian Church in Waynesboro. Originally the bank occupied only the 1908-09 building; a two-story L-shaped commercial building occupied by the Coiner & Yancey Store wrapped around it with entrances at 418 W. Main and 104 S. Wayne. In the 1910s the bank acquired the wraparound building and remodeled the facade of 104 S. Wayne to match the bank facade. In 1935, 418 W. Main housed Kroger Grocery & Baking Company. By the 1950s the bank had expanded into the ground floor of 418 W. Main and altered that storefront to coordinate with its facade. The building presently is home to the Waynesboro Heritage Foundation Museum of local history, and has second-floor apartments and offices (