91-95 N Main St

From the National Register nomination

Classical Revival four-story building of American-bond dark red brick with a stretcher-bond honey brick façade on Main St. At the top is a heavy metal modillion cornice with dentil and egg-and-dart moldings surmounted by a metal cresting with a broken pediment and center finial. Below the cornice is a metal frieze ornamented with garlands and ribbons. The 1/1 (replacement) windows in the second and third stories are framed above and below by quarry-faced limestone belt courses. The second-story windows are trimmed with red brick quoining. The first/second storefronts have a metal modillion and dentil cornice and is framed by brick piers with smooth limestone belt courses. The storefronts have paneled pilasters and a former mezzanine level (now a full second story) with windows framed by fluted pilasters. The more utilitarian north elevation is painted with a mural depicting a covered bridge and a mill with a water wheel. Other north elevation features include a mezzanine-level oriel window, a limestone foundation, brick flues, and smooth limestone window sills and lintels. On the rear (west) elevation is a four-tier porch with first and second stories with what is apparently an original brick enclosure with segmental-arch windows. Ike Ewing had this building erected in 1904-05 and it remained in the Ewing family until 1976. The original ground-floor tenant was Valley Hardware, and in 1907 the Shenandoah Valley Business College used the upstairs. Tenants in 1912 included the hardware store, a barber, a print shop, and Early's Boarding House on the second and third floors. In 1955 the Hawkins Hardware Co. and Winnie's Beauty Parlor were located here. Now Indian & American Cafe.