34 S Main St

From the National Register nomination

Modern one-story building of brick with a stack-bond brick front parapet. A cantilevered aluminum awning shades a deeply recessed storefront with display windows on the sides and a display case island in the center. The recessed area has a checkerboard-pattern aluminum ceiling system and two-tone tan ceramic tile floor. The exposed south side of the building has rough brick and mortar resulting from its construction against a pre-existing building (now gone). The two lower rear sections are earlier in character than the front and have bricked-up segmental-arch windows and entries. Under the rear north corner of the building a limestone foundation is visible. This building is thought to be a much-altered remnant of a three-story building that stood on the spot in the early 20th century. The rear of the building is the least altered section; it may have served as a warehouse. The building burned in the early 1960s while it was being used as The Bargain Store. The present storefront with its island display case may date to use of the remodeled building by Cato's Ladies Fashions. From 1979 until recently Whitesel Music occupied the building. In 2004 it became Ben's Music. (Nancy Warble)