738 South Main Street

From the National Register nomination

Colonial Revival two-story house of stuccoed tile block with an asphalt-shingled gable roof. The gabled dormers have cornice returns, chamfered corner boards, and 6/6 windows. Elsewhere windows are 6/6, 9/9 and 6/1. A broad two-story front bay window has recessed facade surfaces, a decorative wood roof balustrade, and a crescent moon tie rod (or purely ornamental) plate. The one-story front porch has stout square stuccoed pillars and a slatted balustrade. The front entry has a transom and sidelights. On the north gable rises a Flemish-bond brick chimney with dark headers and sloped shoulders with exaggerated slope at the first story. Other, interior chimneys and flues are tan brick with terra-cotta chimney pots. On the south end is a one-story wing (a sunroom? music room?) with a gable parapet with two false chimneys. Other features include a two-tier back porch with a weatherboard enclosure, a brick terrace at the north end, and a long wheelchair ramp that connects to a parking lot at the east end of the lot. A "Bereaved Parents Memorial Garden" has beautiful plantings and specimen trees. Sanborn maps present a confusing sequence of events for this house. A house of almost identical form is portrayed on the 1924 and 1930 maps, although on the 1924 map the house is shown as frame and on the 1930 and later maps it is shown as tile block. Perhaps the house was rebuilt on the foundation of an earlier house; its outward appearance dates mostly to the 1920s period. Virgie I. Masters lived here in 1955. Now Rockingham Memorial Hospital Women's Health Focus. (Hering and Wilson Sanborn map index)