130 Campbell St

From the National Register nomination

The house was originally constructed in 1877 as a two-story, wood frame house by the Campbell sisters for the purpose of running the Campbell Female Seminary, which gives Campbell Street its name today. The Female Seminary was active until the turn of the century and was responsible for educating some of Harrisonburg’s most prominent women. In 1936 further changes occurred when Dr. J.H. Deyerle acquired the property and renovated it to its current appearance, including the addition of the brick veneer and the splitting apart of the interior to accommodate multiple rental units. The changes brought about by Deyerle make the building quite useful today to students from James Madison University. Currently, the 1877 two-story, wood-frame with brick veneer Colonial Revival house sits on a non-visible foundation under a hipped roof clad with asphalt shingles. The building has 5,898 square feet, which is consistent with scale and massing within the neighborhood. The symmetrical façade of the building has a central front door with a triangular pediment with intact sidelights, six-over-six, double-hung, wood-sash windows, east and west two-story wings with weatherboard. The façade also features a dentil molding on the cornice line. There are two one-story garages to the north of the primary resource. It is also notable that there are two empty lots to the east of the house that keep the building isolated from the rest of the neighborhood.