Here’s a photo that looks remarkably similar to something we ran a couple of weeks ago. What and where is it? Send us your guess of what this photo shows – as well as your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, was one of several who identified the July 28 “Classical building” photo.
He wrote, “This week’s mystery photo is of the Abbeville County Courthouse located at 102 Court Square in the historic district of Abbeville, S.C. The photo was taken facing northeast from South. Main St. The courthouse was built in 1908 in the ‘Beaux- Arts’ style by William Augustus Edwards (1866 – 1939) and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Oct. 30, 1981. It has continuously served as the center of government in Abbeville County for 115 years. … The Abbeville County courthouse is one of six existing courthouses in South Carolina that were designed by Edwards, and more than 25 of his works have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Others who correctly identified the courthouse were: Jay Altman, Donna McGreevy and Elizabeth Jones, all of Columbia; E.S. Norman of Greenwood; Frank Bouknight and Daniel Prohaska, both of Summerville; Steve Willis of Lancaster; Bill Segars of Hartsville; Penny Forrester of Tallahassee, Fla.; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Jacie Godfrey of Florence; Pat Keadle of Wagener; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Christi Norton of Abbeville; and Nancy Trapp of Sumter.
>> 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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