179 S Liberty St

From the National Register nomination

One-story building of stretcher-bond brick with an asphalt-shingled gable roof with stepped gable parapets. Other features include a gabled monitor along the roof ridge, industrial metal-frame windows, and freight doors. The accretive utilitarian building appears to be the result of continuous building and rebuilding during the first half of the 20th century. On the 1918 and 1924 Sanborn maps a large building at this location is identified as the poultry and egg department of the Harrisonburg Poultry & Egg Co. On the 1930 and 1940-45 maps it is shown much smaller in size. In 1930 it appears to have served as the tank room and cold storage department of the Milk Industries creamery that stood where 181 S. Liberty St. stands now. In the late 1940s the building was occupied by the Shenandoah Valley Produce Co. and in 1955 by the Cavalier Poultry Corp. By 1960 (probably by 1955) the building had been enlarged to its present size. In 1982 the Police Department shooting range was housed in the building, and more recently it was occupied by Lyon's Floor Covering. Another address for the building is 181-1/2 S. Liberty.