Harrisonburg Downtown Historic District

135 S Main St

Schewel Furniture Co. Warehouse, Ca. 1940

Concrete or blockContributes to the historic character of the district

1940
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From the National Register nomination

Two-story building with painted stretcher-bond brick facade piers and parapet with cinder block curtain walls on the first and second stories. Other features include industrial metal-frame windows, a ceramic parapet coping, present and former garage bays, and unpainted brickwork on the north end. The Schewel Furniture Co. used this warehouse located behind its showrooms (now a parking lot). In later years the building housed a multitude of businesses including a theater, laundry, veterinarian, T-shirt shop, and diaper business. Now Shenandoah Bicycle Shop. (Joseph Bowman)