24-42 North Main Street

From the National Register nomination

One-story building of cinder block and presumably brick construction as well as stretcher-bond brick veneer. The tall parapet is concealed behind an asphalt-shingled mansard. The aluminum and plate glass storefront has a recessed entry with aluminum door handles inscribed "McCrory's Self Service," narrow dark red brick stack-bond aprons under the windows, and remnants of 1950s light blue enameled metal and polished pink granite façade panels. To the rear is a mid-20th century cinder block warehouse addition with a stucco exterior painted with a 1990 mural by Jane McCauley Newman. Two late 19th century commercial buildings were altered to create McCrory's in the early 1950s. A tall parapet with McCrory's large cursive letters was added at that time and altered in the 1970s. Scott Suter and Cheryl Lyon state that the building was partially razed in the 1990s. Now Harrisonburg Children's Museum (front) and Dancing Feet/That Dance Place (rear, with a 33 N. Federal St. address). (Suter and Lyon, Images of America: Harrisonburg, 28)