76 W Gay St

From the National Register nomination

Two-story concrete block building with an American-bond brick veneer on the front end (painted with blue and yellow stripes on white Michelin tire colors). The building has a shed roof with stepped side parapets and 6/6 and industrial metal-frame windows. At the front west corner is a wood and glass panel office door with a one-light transom. Near it is a freight entry with vertical tongue-and-groove doors. A one-story garage of American-bond brick connects to the main building by a metal-clad frame addition. (The garage was not connected to the main building until after 1960.) The garage has a shed roof with stepped side parapets and tongue-and-groove garage doors on tracks. Signage advertises Carr's Car Care & Service, tune ups, brakes, a.c. work. The business was later known as the Harrisonburg Wholesale Grocery (operated by Royal Kinsloe), which closed in the early 1970s and was acquired by Big L Tires. (Raymond Carr Jr.)