Harrisonburg Downtown Historic District
41 Court Sq
Woolworth's Department Store, 1957
Concrete or blockDoes not contribute to the district's historic character
From the National Register nomination
Post Modern one and two-story flat-roofed building of cinder block with painted stretcher-bond brick veneer. Before it was painted putty color, the front face brick was yellow/tan in color and less visible elevations were red brick. Changes in brickwork show the locations of bricked-up original display windows. Features of the Post Modern remodeling include metal-framed windows with Craftsman/Prairie-style-inspired muntin patterns and a projecting front entry with a tall round-arch doorway flanked by shorter round-arch windows, all with quarry-faced limestone keystones. As originally constructed, Woolworth's was Colonial Revival in style with an octagonal cupola and gambrel parapets ornamented with urns, false oculus windows, and false chimneys. Within a few years the colonial look was replaced with a utilitarian modern appearance and this in turn was masked by a Post Modern remodeling ca. 2000. Now The Market Place containing Calhoun's Restaurant & Brewing Co., offices, and the Court Square Theater. (Suter and Lyon, Images of America: Harrisonburg, 33)
Also on the lot
- Tower, Ca. 2000 (noncontributing)
Post Modern two-tier tower primarily decorative but serving as a porte cochere for a north side entry. The tower has cream-colored rockfaced cinder block square pillars with red brick accents and arched steel brackets. The pillars support an inaccessible second tier with square wood columns with molded caps and neckings and metal railings under a pyramidal copper roof. The tower was built in part in the expectation that the Farmers Market would move to the adjoining parking lot. (Bev Appleton)