533 W Main St

From the National Register nomination

Two-story, four-bay, side-gabled dwelling with an exterior end brick chimney, an original one-story gabled ell, and a modern one-story concrete-block rear addition. Original features include the Flemish bond brick walls, upper-story window openings with symmetrical moldings and corner blocks, and a molded brick cornice. Two-over-two sash in the window openings probably date to the late nineteenth century. The first story has been altered with the enclosure of one opening and the expansion of other door and window openings. The east gable end has received a stucco coating, the entire building has been painted, and a standing-seam metal roof covers the historic block and ell sections. John and Catherine Long purchased an unimproved lot in 1830 and in 1838 they sold the present back house to David Bush. According to tradition, Confederate soldiers wounded in the Battle of Waynesboro (March 1865) were cared for in the house. The house has been occupied as an office by at least two physicians, a Dr. Fulton in the nineteenth-century and Dr. Andy McLaughlin in 1945 and later. The east end of the house was damaged in 1949 when an adjoining house was demolished to make way for the Main Street Building being built next door. (Shaw, Ranzini and Wood, "Waynesboro Downtown Historic District"; News-Virginian, August 25, 1975; "Celebrating Waynesboro's 200 Years"; and VDHR survey file 136-0013).