2 N Main St

From the National Register nomination

Romanesque Revival three-story building of brick construction with Indiana limestone facing. The metal-sheathed gable/hip roof has hipped dormers, metal crestings, and a dentil and egg-and-dart cornice. The second and third stories have smooth stone walls. In the third story are projecting brick round arches over single windows or, larger, over paired windows. Under the paired windows are quarry-faced panels. The second-story windows have jack arches (most windows have 1/1 sash). The first story has banded quarry-faced and smooth stonework and metal-framed windows with recessed paneled aprons. An angled corner extends the entire three stories; at its top is a stone plaque inscribed "Ruddle" (originally "Newman"). The main entrance was set into the angled wall originally. Now it is contained in a recess and has a Colonial Revival treatment. The Rockingham National Bank opened in 1900 in this building, which was owned by the bank's president, Anderson Moffett (or Moffat) Newman. Ann McCleary suggests William M. Bucher & Son were the building's contractors, and she notes that the building is said to have been the first in Harrisonburg to use structural steel. In the 1920s the bank expanded into its annex at 38-44 E. Market and in 1943 it moved its operations entirely into the annex. WSVA broadcast from a studio on the second floor beginning in 1939, and the U.T.C. had a hall on the third floor. Don Ruddle acquired the building in 1946. Now Daily Grind Coffee. (Suter and Lyon, Images of America: Harrisonburg, 22, 24; Price, "Rockingham National Bank")