Monticello Store and Post Office

Monticello Store and Post Office

Monticello Store and Post Office, July 2012
Location Off SC 215, Monticello, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°21′11″N 81°17′58″W / 34.35306°N 81.29944°W / 34.35306; -81.29944Coordinates: 34°21′11″N 81°17′58″W / 34.35306°N 81.29944°W / 34.35306; -81.29944
Area 0.8 acres (0.32 ha)
Built c. 1820 (1820)
MPS Fairfield County MRA
NRHP Reference # 84000584[1]
Added to NRHP December 6, 1984

Monticello Store and Post Office is a historic general store and post office located at Monticello, Fairfield County, South Carolina. It may have been built as early as 1820, and is a one-story, frame, weatherboarded, T-shaped building. The front façade features an undercut gallery with a pedimented gable supported by octagonal wooden columns. The building was used as a store and post office after the American Civil War until the mid-1960s.[2][3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. unknown (n.d.). "Monticello Store and Post Office" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  3. "Monticello Store and Post Office, Fairfield County (S.C. Hwy. 215, Monticello)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 5 July 2012.


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