From “Remembering Greenville: Photographs from the Coxe Collection,” by Jeffery R. Willis.
Large industries spawn smaller companies that supply the needs of the larger manufacturers. The phenomenal growth of Greenville’s textile industry in the last decades of the 19th century created a need for mill supply companies. The Carolina Supply Company was organized in 1899 by a group of businessmen that included T. S. Inglesby, Francis Joseph Pelzer, and his namesake, Francis Joseph Pelzer Cogswell. Eventually Inglesby and Cogswell became sole owners. Carolina Supply grew to become one of the largest mill supply companies in the Southeast. In 1914 the company constructed this large four-story building on West Court Street.
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Today the building remains – though an addition was added to the east side of the building, the rest of the exterior is virtually unchanged from its construction in 1914. The building is home to Wells Fargo Advisors and Harper Corporation General Contractors.
