544 S Main St

From the National Register nomination

Victorian two-story frame house with modern novelty weatherboard siding and a gable roof. The two-tier front portico, which dates to after 1960, has paneled square wood columns, cornice returns, a dentil cornice and raking cornice, and a lunette in the gable. The replacement 1/1 windows have decorative sawn wood crestings on the lintels. One-story bay windows on each gable end have brackets and sawn work in their friezes and paneled aprons. Other features include a stuccoed foundation, one and two-story rear wings, unusual sawn ornament forming a frieze under the eaves, and a one-story back porch on chamfered posts with bold molded caps and small brackets. These porch elements are probably recycled from the original one-story front porch. A house at this location was labeled W. S. Ott on the 1885 Lake map. E. A. Hering lived here in the early 20th century and E. T. Kramer lived here in 1955. Now Rockingham Memorial Hospital Pulmonary Associates. (Hering and Wilson Sanborn map index)