Harrisonburg Downtown Historic District

741 S Main St

T. N. Haas House, Ca. 1880

No longer standing, gone by 2022. Demolished March 2022 by JMU, after it was documented for Virginia DHR (Commonwealth Architects, 2021).

Confirmed no longer standing in October 2026

FrameContributed to the Harrisonburg Downtown Historic District when it was listed in 2005

1880
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From the National Register nomination

Italianate/Colonial Revival two-story frame house with vinyl siding and an asphalt-shingled hip roof. The hipped dormers have flared eaves, battered sides with square wood shingle sheathing, and windows with diamond-pane upper sashes. The bracketed cornice has panels between the brackets. The center bay projects slightly and has a gable with cornice returns, a bracketed raking cornice, and a lunette vent with modern louvers but an early spindle screen. In the second story of the center bay is a window with a round arch with a keyblock, Gothick tracery, and a paneled pilaster surround. The one-story entry porch stands on replacement fluted cylindrical aluminum columns but retains a pediment with staggered square wood shingle sheathing. The front entry has sidelights and an elliptical fanlight with leaded glass, built-in seats at the foot of the sidelights, and a paneled reveal. On the south side is a one-story rectangular-plan bay window with decorative windows. The 1/1 windows have projecting lintels on the second story. The two-story ell, which appears to have been built in two phases, has an enclosed one-story side porch, an interior brick flue, a brick foundation, and 6/6 windows. C. F. Haas owned the house and a large acreage on the west side of S. Main St. in 1885. Judge T. N. Haas lived here in the early 20th century and Hamilton Haas lived here in 1955. (Hering and Wilson Sanborn map index)

People

  • C. F. Haas owner in 1885 (owned the house and a large acreage on the west side of S. Main St.)
  • T. N. Haas lived here (Judge; lived here in the early 20th century)
  • Hamilton Haas lived here in 1955