657 S Main St

From the National Register nomination

Victorian/Classical Revival two-story house with a penciled stretcher-bond brick veneer and a slate hip-and-gable roof. The north and south gables have fishscale wood shingle sheathing but the east (front) gable has novelty vinyl siding. The wraparound one-story porch has Ionic columns, a low balustrade with square balusters, and a balcony over the front entry with sides sheathed with square wood shingles. The front entry has sidelights, a transom with decorative glass, and a natural-finish five horizontal panel wood door. On the first story of the south side is a rectangular-plan bay window supported by sawn brackets. The bay window has fishscale wood shingle sheathing, and it links to a gable at the south end of the wraparound porch which has the same sheathing. The segmental-arch 1/1 windows, which are single or paired, have incised Victorian ornament in their wood lintels. The back porch has replacement wood posts on the first tier and turned posts on the second. Other features include a limestone foundation and an interior brick chimney. Daisy G. Byers lived here in 1955. (Hering and Wilson Sanborn map index)