MYSTERY PICTURE: Identify this old building

Here’s a good mystery building somewhere in South Carolina in a photo from more than 50 years ago.  Where 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 mystery photo, “Lots of columns,” showed a home in Bishopville known as “The Manor.”  Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, notes: “Originally owned by Edward Wilson Tisdale (1864 – 1960), a successful cotton merchant from Sumter. Shortly after Tisddale moved from Sumter to Bishopville, he hired architect James Herbert Johnson (1881 – 1959), also from Sumter, to design his new home, a two-story, neo-classical manor built between 1914 and 1918.”

Longtime sleuth Frank Bouknight, a native of Bishopville, recalled “Woodrow Tisdale lived there when he taught music to the white children in Bishopville schools.”

Hats off to these other sleuths who identified it:  Jay Altman, Julie DesChamps and Elizabeth Jones, all of Columbia; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Pat Keadle of Wagener; Bill Segars and Don Clark, both of Hartsville; Jacie Godfrey of Florence; and David Lupo of Mount Pleasant.  

>> 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.