23 East Main Street, Berryville

The 1987 Berryville Historic District nomination inventoried 23 East Main Street as a police/town office building in 1987 — office being its original use — with a mid-twentieth-century Modern Colonial Revival front on nineteenth-century rear sections, one of which the surveyors identified as a brick ell that had been a livery¹. The John H. Enders Fire Company's history says a firehouse was built on East Main Street in 1935, 'a couple of doors up from the John H. Enders Funeral Home,' and that the building has been used as or with the fire company since². Whether the specific building the fire company remembers is 23 East Main or an adjacent one is a question the released record does not settle; the Fire House Gallery name that opened at 23 East Main in 2010 suggests continuity with the fire-company memory.

The Fire House Gallery at 23 East Main Street opened in January 2010 and was announced in August 2019 to close on 30 September that year. The opening day is reported two ways: Virginia Main Street records one date, the gallery's own account another¹. It ran for nearly a decade as an artist-run space in the middle of downtown Berryville — the second life of a firehouse.

The incubator space above the gallery had three tenants documented in the corpus. Turiya Yoga and Wellness held its grand opening on 8–9 May 2015. Gemparcel opened in Suite B in early November 2017. A third tenant is documented in the same Clarke Monthly listing¹. Berryville Main Street's website, read on 10 September 2026, places its Downtown Berryville Business Incubator at 23 East Main Street, Suite 202². Modern Mercantile's directory profile says the business opened in November 2014 and lists it at 23 East Main Street; the business's own site, captured in October 2014, gave 13 South Church Street³. Which address is right for Modern Mercantile's opening, and when it moved if it did, the released record does not resolve.