Built in 1806, the Coiner-Quesenbery House, one of the city of Waynesboro’s few remaining early structures, is believed to be the city’s first brick dwelling. This Federal town house’s original owner was Casper Coiner, who was of Pennsylvania-German origin. With its elegant Georgian cornice, Coiner’s residence is an unusually sophisticated representative of the houses found in the linear villages of the Shenandoah Valley. Following the practice of densely settled communities, particularly Philadelphia, the Valley settlers placed their houses at the fronts of their lots, giving their villages an urban character. The Coiner-Quesenbery House originally had a center entrance, but an alteration of 1832 gave it a more conventional side-passage plan. Located in the Waynesboro Downtown Historic District, the house was restored to its mid-19th-century appearance in 1972 by the Quesenbery family, who had owned the house for many years.