Old Market Building (Georgetown, South Carolina)


Old Market Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Old Market Building, HABS Photo, May 1958
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Location	Front and Screven Sts., Georgetown, South Carolina
Coordinates	33°21′56″N 79°16′57″W / 33.36556°N 79.28250°W / 33.36556; -79.28250Coordinates: 33°21′56″N 79°16′57″W / 33.36556°N 79.28250°W / 33.36556; -79.28250
Area	0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built	1832 (1832)-1835, 1842
NRHP Reference #	69000166^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 3, 1969

Old Market Building, also known as The Rice Museum, is a historic public market building located at Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina. It was built in 1832-1835, and is a one-story, Classical Revival temple form building on a high arcaded base. The arched area was used as an open air market but was enclosed in the early-20th century. A tower topped by a square stage and an open belfry was added. The tower houses a four-sided clock was added about 1842. The building has served as a town hall, a jail, an open-air market, and a slave market.^[2]^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Mrs. James W. Fant (November 1969). "Old Market Building" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "Old Market Building, Georgetown County (Front & Screven Sts., Georgetown)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

External links

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. Market Building, Front & Screven Streets, Georgetown, Georgetown County, SC, "{{{title}}}", 4 photos

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina

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