124 Newman Ave

From the National Register nomination

Queen Anne/Colonial Revival two-story house to which was made a large one-story addition in 1956. The house has an asphalt-shingled front-gambrel roof with flared eaves and a shed dormer on the north side. At the original southwest corner is a round tower with a conical roof with flared eaves and a metal ball finial. Ribbon windows with decorative glass wrap around part of the tower's second story. The roof ends and dormer have what appears to be replacement simulation wood shingles. Windows are 8/1 or 1/1 with decorative upper sash. At the northwest corner is a formerly detached four-vehicle garage apparently originally associated with the duplex at 110-112 E. Newman Ave. The one-story garage has painted American-bond walls, an asbestos-tile hip roof, garage bays now infilled with T-1-11 siding, and a row of small segmental-arch windows on the rear (south) elevation. The house originally had what the Sanborn maps described as a stone veneer on the first-story. At present the remaining exposed east elevation of the first story has a pebbly concrete or cinder block veneer with a dentil-like corbeled cornice. It is possible that this is the stone-like material described on the Sanborn maps; more likely it was added when the additions of similar material were made in 1956. These additions wrap around the house on the south, west, and north sides and have flat roofs, small metal-frame windows, plate glass display windows on the south elevation, and a curved southwest corner. Other features of the additions include painted cinder block on less visible elevations, a basement story on the north side, a loading dock near the northeast corner with a frame and corrugated fiberglass shelter, and a modern Colonial Revival entry surround on the south side with shoulders, a cushion molding, and a paneled reveal. Along the S. Mason St. and E. Water St. sidewalks extends a low limestone retaining wall. The early 20th century house that forms the core of this building was known as the Williamson House. In 1956 Miles Music moved here and constructed the wraparound addition. The ca. 1920 four-vehicle garage attached to the rear may once have been associated with the duplex at 110-112 E. Newman Ave. Now S. B. Hoover & Co. accountants. (Suter and Lyon, Images of America: Harrisonburg, 47)