80-82 S Main St

From the National Register nomination

Victorian three-story building of painted brick with a shed roof with stepped side parapets. The wide brick cornice features a row of corbel-topped recesses. Belt courses run across the facade and arch up over the segmental-arch 2/1 windows. The south storefront has beige and green Carrara glass. The north storefront has a metal facade that extends up into the second story. The north side elevation has recessed bays and 6/6 windows. A three-story masonry building is depicted at this location on the 1886 Sanborn map with a saloon on the first floor. Later occupants included stores, a barber shop, a confectionery shop, a restaurant, and a grocery and meat market. Robert Liskey purchased the building about 1900 and it remained in his family for much of the 20th century. Now Duke's Sportscards (80) and The Runner's Corner (82). Note: This building is incorrectly identified as 30-32 S. Main St. in the 1982 survey. A report by JMU students McCahill-Perrine et al suggests the building may have been built as an addition to the American Hotel, which stood on the next lot to the south. (McCahill-Perrine et al, "Pennybacker, Derrick, Buildings")