This view might pose a few difficulties for even the sleuthiest of photo sleuths, so we’ll give a hint: It’s been in the news lately in South Carolina. Send us your guess of what and where this photo is – as well as your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com.
Last week’s mystery photo, “Old building” shows the old Finch Hotel, also known as the Franklin Hotel, in Spartanburg, as Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, explained:
“The building was built by W.T. Finch, a local business man and meat market operator, between 1918 and 1922. It was intended to be an expansion of the original Finch Hotel that was located on an adjacent tract of land at 123 South Liberty Street. Finch never completed the expansion and it was later sold at public auction to Frank Hodges who did complete the structure and opened it as The Franklin Hotel. It remained in operation for over 40-years, before being sold again in the 1970s and converted into a boarding house. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 28, 1983. Then in August 1988, the city of Spartanburg purchased the property and had it demolished to make room for a high-rise office complex.”
Congratulations to a shorter-than-normal list of people who identified the mystery: Jay Altman of Columbia; Kimberly Chancey of Jacksonville, Fla.; Penny Forrester of Tallahassee, Fla.; Pat Keadle of Wagener; and George Graf of Palmyra, Va.
- 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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