Here’s a photo of a classic building somewhere in South Carolina, but where and what is it? Send us your guess of what this photo shows – as well as your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com.
Last week’s “Towering presence” mystery, a photo sent in by reader Barry Wingard of Florence, shows the Old Market Building and Town Clock, which houses the Rice Museum in Georgetown.
David Lupo of Mount Pleasant, one of several people who identified the structure, said, “the Old Market Building was constructed in 1842 to replace an older wooden structure lost in an 1841 fire. The Town Clock was added in 1857. This building was the first in Georgetown to be named to the National Register of Historic Places. In 1970, as part of the S.C. Tricentennial celebration, a 750-square-foot museum opened in the building with a focus on the history of rice growing in Georgetown County, the center of rice production in the early days of South Carolina. Over the years, the Rice Museum’s exhibit space has expanded to ten times its original size.”
Others who identified the photo were: Katherine Wells, Jean Prothro, Jay Altman, Karen Ingram, John Hart and Elizabeth Jones, all of Columbia; Charles Ford of Charleston; Michael Webb, Bill Segars and Don Clark, both of Hartsville; Mark Partin of Sumter; Will Williams of Aiken; Jacie Godfrey of Florence; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Pat Keadle of Wagener; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; David Taylor of Darlington; Christine Thompson of Westminster; and Carol Julien.
>> Send us a mystery picture. If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: feedback@statehousereport.com and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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