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Historic photograph availabile from the Greenville Historical Society
Greenville’s Main Street in 1899. Greenville’s third court house, left, was located across Main Street from its predecessor. When still another courthouse was constructed in 1916-1917 on the same site, this Gothic building was demolished. The Mansion House, Greenville’s earliest hotel, is seen on the left just above the courthouse. The view up Main Street shows Greenville’s emerging business district. Trolley tracks run down the middle of South Main Street.
[ From “Remembering Greenville: Photographs from the Coxe Collection” by Jeffrey R. Willis ]
Today both courthouses seen in the photograph from 1899 are gone. The buildings that replaced them – the courthouse built in 1916-17 up the street on the left and the Chamber of Commerce building constructed in the early ’20s on the right – remain. The Mansion House was demolished, and the Poinsett Hotel was constructed on the same site in the mid-’20s. The hotel continues to operate as the Westin Poinsett. The trolley system is also gone.
