163-165 S Main St

From the National Register nomination

One-story painted brick building with stretcher-bond brick on the front and American-bond brick on the exposed south side elevation. The fanciful front parapet has a three-part form with a higher and wider middle section flanked by lower sections. The parapet has a shaped concrete and ceramic coping. Vehicles drove in under a molded concrete segmental arch that occupies the south bay. The other bays, presumably originally showroom display windows, have brick infill and reworked recessed entries. Other features include barred unglazed window openings on the south wall corresponding to the drive-in bay, 1/1 windows further back, and a concrete foundation. The Wine Bros. Dodge/Plymouth dealership was the building's first occupant in the 1920s. In 1975 the building was converted into restaurants, and by 1982 it had acquired a false half-timbered facade (now removed). In 2004 an effort was underway to develop the narrow lot between this building and 181-191 S. Main as the Denton Pocket Park, a project of the Harrisonburg Landscape Committee. Now You Made It (paint your own pottery; 163) and Community Mediation Center (165). (Eddie Bumbaugh)