Architectural Inventory, City of Greenville, South Carolina, May 2013

Edwards-Pitman Environmental, Inc.

From introduction: "In the fall of 2002, the City of Greenville and the South Carolina Department of Archives and History engaged Edwards-Pitman Environmental, Inc., to conduct an intensive architectural survey of historic resources in Greenville... Final products of the survey include this report entitled “City of Greenville, South Carolina: Architectural Inventory,” which contains an overview of the historical development of the city, a discussion of architectural styles represented in Greenville, a list of recommendations for National Register eligibility and local designation, and an inventory of all surveyed properties. Twenty copies of the report were produced; seven copies were delivered to the SC SHPO and thirteen copies were given to the City of Greenville. In addition two sets of original, archival-quality survey cards were produced for the properties recorded during this survey. One set is stored at the South Carolina Archives in Columbia and the other is held by the City of Greenville. Two sets of maps with plotted locations of the surveyed properties and two CD-Rs containing a database of surveyed properties were also delivered to the South Carolina Archives and the City of Greenville. The present survey builds upon earlier survey projects conducted within the City of Greenville over the past twenty-five years. The most comprehensive survey of Greenville’s historic architecture was completed in 1981 by Building Conservation Technology, Inc. (BCT), a cultural resources consulting firm based in Nashville, Tennessee. BCT recorded over 650 sites including properties in the central business district, surrounding neighborhoods, and outlying areas, and their findings were presented in a published report, The Historic Resources of Greenville, South Carolina (1981). BCT’s early survey provided a foundation for the present survey, although new information made available in the past twenty years was added to their initial work. The other major effort to identify and document historic architecture in Greenville was, in fact, a survey update and remapping project completed in 1993. This project transferred information about 724 sites to new maps, field checked locations, and assigned new site numbers, which were incorporated into the database for the present survey. Other properties in the inventory of Greenville’s historic architecture have been added through environmental review projects conducted for the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) in compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. Sixty-one sites were recorded by Brockington and Associates, Inc., during the survey work for the Western Corridor project. Other surveys conducted by SCDOT recorded twenty-three sites along Augusta Road in 1992 and eleven sites recorded for the Stone Avenue Extension project in 1997. Other properties have been recorded piecemeal over the years and added to the SC SHPO’s database of historic properties in the City of Greenville." Funding was provided in part by a 2002 Historic Preservation Fund grant to City of Greenville (project number SC-02-003) administered by the South Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 45-02-17571) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Greenville, South Carolina is a Certified Local Government.

Architectural Inventory, City of Greenville, South Carolina, May 2013

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