1 Court Sq

From the National Register nomination

Moderne three-story building with a stretcher-bond buff brick veneer and flat roof. In the front second and third stories are vertical recesses of painted brick. The middle recess originally contained plate glass windows and a panel with a cursive inscription. The flanking recesses (and similar ones on the east side) contained gridlike ornament. The long east side elevation is ornamented with recessed horizontal bands and has two ribbon windows in the third story. At street level are replacement plate glass windows and entries above a stuccoed apron. The Ney family was a leading Harrisonburg mercantile family from the mid-1800s into the 20th century. Alfred and Eddie Ney (the sons of Joseph Ney) acquired the Shacklett Building at this corner and replaced it in 1951 with the present building, designed by Charlottesville/Harrisonburg architect Clarence W. Wenger about 1950. In 1955 the department store advertised haberdashery and women's and children's wear. Now JMU Procurement Services and Accounts Payable. The building also appears as address 2-5 Court Square. (Suter and Lyon, Images of America: Harrisonburg, 34-35; Wells and Dalton, Virginia Architects, 469)