20 N Main St

From the National Register nomination

Three-story building of textured stretcher-bond brick with a shed roof behind a metal dentil cornice. The second and third-story 1/1 windows have quarry-faced stone lintels and sills. The reworked storefront has a transom covered with plywood, aluminum and plate glass windows, and a flanking frame of beige Carrara glass and granite. To the rear is a mid-20th century warehouse addition of stuccoed cinder block with a late 20th century Post Modern remodeling. The present building first appears on the 1918 Sanborn map with a 5-and-10-cent store, shoe store, and ladies clothing store as tenants. Later tenants included J. C. Penney, Charles Store, Wise Fashions, and Sniders. F. W. Woolworth's Store was located here in the 1950s. Now Blue Ridge Theatre Festival rehearsal space (front) and Garrison Press (rear, with a 31 N. Federal St. address). (Suter and Lyon, Images of America: Harrisonburg, 28)