Pacolet Mill Office

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Pacolet Mill Office
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Location180 Montgomery Ave., Pacolet, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°55′14″N81°44′30″W / 34.92056°N 81.74167°W / 34.92056; -81.74167 Coordinates: 34°55′14″N81°44′30″W / 34.92056°N 81.74167°W / 34.92056; -81.74167
Arealess than one acre
Built1908 (1908)
Architect Lockwood, Greene & Co.; Draper, Earle S.
Architectural styleRenaissance
NRHP reference No. 04000760 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 28, 2004

Pacolet Mill Office, also known as Pacolet Municipal Building and Town Hall, is a historic office building located at Pacolet, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It built in 1908 by the Pacolet Manufacturing Company. It is a one-story, brick building with full-height basement level. It has a low-pitched hip roof with flared eaves and decorative exposed rafter tails. The roof is clad with clay Spanish tile. The site features a curving cast stone or concrete pergola added some time between 1920 and 1927. In 2004, the building became the town hall for the Town of Pacolet. [2] [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Brian L. Robson (June 2004). "Pacolet Mill Office" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
  3. "Pacolet Mill Office, Spartanburg County (180 Montgomery Ave., Pacolet)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-07-01.