N. W. Yager House and Store, The Long Building
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Yager Building (N. W. Yager House and Store, The Long Building)
c. 1835. 230–232 W. Main St.
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(Photograph by D Hughes) -
(Photograph by D Hughes)
Luray merchant Yager purchased this lot at the key intersection of Main and Court streets in 1834 and is thought to have completed his two-story residence and store the following year. The building's Federal-Greek Revival transitional styling supports an 1830s construction date. The pedimented west gable features a lunette window set into flush-board sheathing, and a pair of chimneys rises above both gable ends. Several entrances open off the street, the main one with a pilaster surround, sidelights, and a transom with decoratively patterned muntins. The first-floor interior, used for offices, features a center-passage plan; a dogleg stair with a paneled spandrel, scrolled tread brackets, and turned balusters and newels; and handcarved Ionic and Doric mantels. To the rear of the main block extends a two-story frame wing with beaded weatherboards attached with cut nails and a side porch that retains at least one early chamfered post. This wing was probably built soon after the brick section and may have served as lodging rooms.
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Location: Luray, VirginiaRegional Overviews:Styles:no metadata available
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Anne Carter Lee, "Yager Building (N. W. Yager House and Store, The Long Building)", [Luray, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-PG4.
Print Source
Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest, Anne Carter Lee and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 80-81.
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