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Hockman House

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1871, Anthony Hockman. 266 E. Market St.
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (Virginia Department of Historic Resources)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)
  • (Photograph by Mark Mones)

Residential development spread east along Market Street in the late nineteenth century, serving business and professional residents with more picturesque neighborhoods along these hilly streets. Local designer and builder Hockman built this fashionable three-bay, two-story Italianate frame residence for himself. Although retaining the familiar I-house plan, the house is more heavily ornamented than most local examples. The projecting central bay is capped with a pedimented gable, and the house is enriched with a front porch, elaborate window caps, corner pilasters, and a multi-windowed and hipped-roof cupola. Hockman's house showed the community his awareness of popular styles and his ability to integrate new architectural ideas into a handsome design.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Anne Carter Lee
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What's Nearby

Commercial Building (Rockingham National Bank, Newman-Ruddle Building)
Rockingham County Office Building (People's Bank)
Biltwell
Bank of America (Virginia National Bank)
Rockingham County Courthouse

Citation

Anne Carter Lee, "Hockman House", [Harrisonburg, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-02-RH12.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Virginia vol 2

Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest, Anne Carter Lee and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, 91-91.

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