Harrisonburg Downtown Historic District
606 S Main St
Yancey House, Ca. 1880
FrameContributes to the historic character of the district
From the National Register nomination
Victorian two-story frame house with vinyl siding and a metal-sheathed hip roof. The one-story front porch stands on classical columns and shelters an off-center entry with sidelights, a transom, and sawn transom brackets. The tall windows are 6/6 sash, as are those of a one-story bay window on the north side elevation. A lower two-story wing, probably original and probably a servants wing, projects to the rear. It has an interior gable end brick chimney with a corbeled cap like that of the main house chimney. A one-story frame wing connects the rear wing to a two-story or story-and-a-half stuccoed masonry wing that may originally have served as a kitchen. It too has an interior gable end brick chimney, although with slightly different corbeling in the cap, perhaps indicating a different period of construction. A concrete retaining wall with a curved corner extends along S. Main and E. Grattan streets. Mrs. C. A. Yancey occupied the house in 1885, by which date it had achieved its present entrained form. Esther D. Yancey lived here in 1955. Also known as The Monument House.
People
- C. A. Yancey lived here in 1885 (Mrs.)
- Esther D. Yancey lived here in 1955