126 W Main St, Cherryville, NC 28021

The three-story, four-bay-wide, Commercial Style building at the block's west end has a commanding presence enlivened by a blonde brick facade. Beneath the corbelled cornice, which is capped with a header course and cast-stone coping, a slightly recessed rectangular panel with a header-course border and four inset diamond-shaped white tiles ornaments the parapet. A header course spans the facade above the corbelled cornices of four tall, narrow, recessed panels that contain eight double-hung, oneover-one, wood sash windows with six-pane wood transoms. Soldier-course lintels and cast-stone sills frame the window openings. A slightly recessed rectangular panel with a header-course border fills the space between the second-story window sills and the storefront. Brick pilasters frame the storefront's wide central section and narrow outer bays. Late-twentieth-century plywood panels and three tall, narrow, wood-frame windows fill the center bay, which originally held a large plate-glass window. The outer bays contain single-leaf aluminum-frame doors and tall plate-glass transoms. Masons executed the variegated-brick secondary elevations in six-to-one common bond with stepped terra-cotta-capped east and west parapets. The east elevation is blind. On the west elevation, four oneover-one, double-hung, wood-sash windows; two high, square, single-pane windows, and a groundlevel wood-frame storefront illuminate the interior. A steel fire escape with two landings and metal railings serves the central, single-leaf, glazed second- and third-story doors. The ten window openings on the west elevation's third story, grouped in pairs, have been infilled with brick. The three-bay-wide north elevation encompasses a double-leaf replacement first-story door flanked by one-over-one, double-hung, wood-sash windows. The three second-story windows are identical. Two tall, narrow, third-story window openings have been infilled with brick above replacement one-overone sash. When Cherryville Lodge 505 A. F. & A.M. was chartered in January 1900, members elected Dr. J. Lee Beam to serve as worshipful master, Charles P. Stroup as senior warden, and John Carpenter as junior warden. The lodge initially leased the upper floor of a former roller mill then used as a storage building to gather. Later Main Street meeting locations included the Mauney, Houser, and Rudisill Buildings. The Cherryville Post Office occupied the first floor from 1924 until moving to its 1958 building at 107 North Mulberry Street. The public library leased space on the Masonic Building's first floor in June 1954 and remained there until the February 1959 completion ofthe one-story brick library at 605 East Main Street. Day Plumbing and Heating Company occupied a section of the storefront in the 1960s and Messenger's Flowers and Gifts leased space in the 1970s. Cherryville Lodge 505 A. F. & A. M. and the Order of the Eastern Star No. 156 utilized the upper floors.