Harrisonburg Downtown Historic District

125 South Main Street

A house

Not recordedContributes to the historic character of the district

From the National Register nomination

The one-story front entry porch has Doric columns and pilasters and a gable with a shallow elliptical profile. The porch shelters an entry with sidelights and an elliptical fanlight. Windows are 8/8, those on the first-story front with decorative lintels, paneled aprons, and decorative false balconies. Other windows have shutters with louvered lower panels and solid upper panels with crescent moon cut-outs. On the south gable end is a one-story sunroom balanced on the north end by a one-room wing (possibly a music room). A porte cochere extends at an angle from the east end of the sun room, supported by stuccoed columns. An off-center exterior stuccoed chimney rises on the south gable with an ogee cap, an S-curve tie rod end, and flanking quarter-round windows in the gable. Other features include a dentil cornice, a rear bay window with a second-story sleeping porch jetted over it, and a round-arch window in the north gable. G. G. Grattan lived in a pre-existing house on this lot in 1885, and the Grattan family continued to live here into the early 20th century. The earlier house was replaced by the present one between 1924 and 1930. J. L. Deter lived here in 1955. (Hering and Wilson Sanborn map index)

Also on the lot

  • Garage, 1920s

    Architecturally coordinated with the main house. One-story stuccoed tile block garage with an asphalt-shingled pedimented front-gable roof, a dentil cornice, and a wide vinyl garage door.

People

  • G. G. Grattan lived here in 1885 (lived in a pre-existing house on this lot)
  • J. L. Deter lived here in 1955