| Year(s) Listed: • 2024 |
| City/Town: • Luray |
| Location Class: • Commercial |
| Built: 1888 | Abandoned: |
| Status: • Endangered |
| Contributor: Charma Craven |
The limestone basement is divided into two sections by a stone wall, with access between them and posts supporting the main floor. Notably, a freight elevator with its original mechanism is in the northeast corner. The west storefront has two entrances, with the north side retaining its original design and the south side modified but potentially restorable. The main floor might have a central block wall continuing from the basement, though modern paneling obscures confirmation.
Upstairs, a large room spans east to west, supported by beams atop the basement wall. The storefront remains mostly original, aside from modifications covering the plate glass windows on the south half. The north wall shows signs of additional buildings constructed in 1904 by Frank Pospishil, with a door that once accessed an adjacent building now gone. The south wall once had stairs to the upper floor, evident from photographs. There are two metal lean-to additions on the east wall of unknown date, and various alterations have occurred since 1970.
Rain from several days in a row pooled on top of the roof and it suffered a catastrophic failure. Water poured into the second story, then poured into the first floor, insulation in the ceiling fell down and the building is ruined internally. A structural architect came and in and said they found and limestone walls to be structurally sound making it a prime candidate to for restoration