317 S Main St

From the National Register nomination

Queen Anne two-story house of stretcher-bond brick with a high asphalt-shingled hip roof. A chimney at the south front corner has corbeled fins at the top of its four sides. Two-story bay windows rise on the east and south sides and a third, rectangular-plan bay window on the north side has an upper balcony with turned posts and sawn brackets. The one-story wraparound porch has turned posts on stone pedestals, turned balusters, and an angled corner with a small gable roof. Between the stone porch piers are sections of curved stone underpinning with rough copings. Similar stonework forms cheeks on each side of the front porch steps. To the rear is a one-story porch with square posts, board railings, a stair, and an enclosed end. Other features include a limestone foundation, 1/1 windows with fake shutters, board-and-batten gable ornament, decorative rafter ends, a small hipped dormer with flared eaves, a south side entry with a stained glass transom, and a modern glass vestibule over the front entry. The house was used as the Homestead Inn in 1955. Annie B. Foley may have been the innkeeper. Now Harrisonburg School Board Administrative Office. (Hering and Wilson Sanborn map index)