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Located on the western side of Five Points, the Virginia Hotel was bordered on the left by West Coffee Street and on the right by Buncombe Street. Occupying the former site of the Greenville Opera House, it later became known as the Earle Hotel. With 54 guest rooms, the Virginia was numbered among Greenville’s first-class hotels when it opened in 1925. The building was demolished in the early 1970s to make way for the Peoples National Bank Tower (later Bank of America). The new bank building not only took over the hotel property but blocked off West Coffee and Buncombe Streets as well.
The Bank of America tower now stands where the Virginia Hotel once stood.
From “Remembering Greenville: Photographs from the Coxe Collection” by Jeffrey R. Willis
