92 S Main St

From the National Register nomination

Italianate two-story painted brick building with a shed roof with stepped side parapets. The front parapet has an ornate wood cornice with sawn brackets, dentils, and a paneled frieze. The second-story windows have unusual segmental-arch brick label moldings. The reworked storefront has brick infill, picture windows, and a recessed entry. The south side elevation has high store windows. The building appears to have achieved its present appearance by 1891, and there is a possibility that at least the front section was standing in 1886. James Clark may have been the owner in the 1880s and Sylvester K. Fuller the occupant. In 1886 the building contained a saloon and in 1891 a fruit market occupied the first floor. Later uses include a restaurant, barber shop, pool hall, book/stationery/wallpaper store, cigar shop, and drugstore. A report by JMU students McCahill-Perrine et al suggests the building may incorporate part of the American Hotel, which stood at this location in the mid-19th century, and that it may have attained its present form as the result of an addition made by the Pollock & Houston Construction Co. Now Harrisonburg Beauty School. (McCahill-Perrine et al, "Pennybacker, Derrick, Buildings")