71 Court Sq

From the National Register nomination

Modern two-story building with stretcher-bond brick veneer over cinder block (and possibly a 1950s brick veneer). Tinted plate glass doors and windows, many contained in projecting round-arch brick surrounds. Other features include recessed principal entries on the Court Square and W. Water St. elevations, a corbeled cornice, and an angled wall at the southwest corner. A pedestrian alley runs along the west side of the building. The W. T. Grant Co. Department Store erected this building-originally one story in height-in the early 1950s. Ann McCleary suggests construction of the former garage section on W. Water St. began in 1951. The 1955-60 Sanborn map dates the building to 1954. In the 1970s Advance Auto was located here. The building was remodeled by Robert Ritchie. (Chuck Sellers; Suter and Lyon, Images of America: Harrisonburg, 30)