706 South Main Street

From the National Register nomination

Queen Anne two-story house of American-bond brick (with traces of penciling) and an asphalt-shingled hip-and-gable roof. In the steep-pitched front gable is intricate wooden ornament evoking hammer-beam trusswork; behind is a peaked Gothic Revival window in a decorative frame. The roof also has a bracketed cornice and hipped dormers with brackets. The one-story front porch has chamfered rectangular-section posts with curved and incised brackets and a sawn balustrade. The bracketed porch cornice has a paneled frieze, and under the porch is a brick foundation with lattice vents. The first and second-story front entries have sidelights, transoms, and paneled reveals. The two-story brick ell has a two-tier side porch with a screened first tier and a part enclosed/part screened second tier with an unusual truss-like balustrade. Other features include interior brick chimneys (one with bold corbeling), 2/2 windows with bracketed hoods, and a two-story rear brick-veneer bathroom addition. C. F. Haas owned the undeveloped site in 1885. Dave Wiseman lived here in the 1910s and Kath S. McNeill lived here in 1955. Now Rockingham Memorial Hospital Foundation Valley Health Plan. (Hering and Wilson Sanborn map index)