What do you think?
Rate this book
A Guide to Historic Greenville, South Carolina
Greenville History Tours owner John Nolan leads the reader through downtown in a tourist-friendly guide to historic sites, with vintage photographs to illustrate how the city has changed and what original features remain.
Carefully researched and exceptionally written, it is a wonderful companion, both for visitors and for Greenville residents who want to see their hometown in a new light. v Enjoy the thriving, diverse and historic sites in three tours of Greenville's Main Street. v Explore the city's architectural highlights, spanning from early nineteenth-century Charleston-style buildings to a mid-twentieth-century home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. v Discover the dramatically successful downtown revitalization that serves as a model for elected officials and private investors around the country. v Experience some of the South's richest cultural resources by visiting Greenville's collection of museums and galleries.
Carefully researched and exceptionally written, it is a wonderful companion, both for visitors and for Greenville residents who want to see their hometown in a new light. v Enjoy the thriving, diverse and historic sites in three tours of Greenville's Main Street. v Explore the city's architectural highlights, spanning from early nineteenth-century Charleston-style buildings to a mid-twentieth-century home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. v Discover the dramatically successful downtown revitalization that serves as a model for elected officials and private investors around the country. v Experience some of the South's richest cultural resources by visiting Greenville's collection of museums and galleries.
144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
8 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
October 23, 2009
This is a great guide to the historic locations mostly in Greenville, SC’s downtown area. The new visitor and the long time resident of the community alike will find this guide a useful and fun help to understanding the important sites of their community.
This guide is divided into five tours, or sections, that give the user easier ways to actually participate in physically linking the text with the real sites, which mostly can be found by walking. The five tours are the West End, South Main, North Main, notable architecture and Cultural sites.
Interesting anecdotes about particular sites, like the 1920’s competition to race to the top of the now demolished Woolworth building, by a local builder and an out of town show man; give charm and life to this book. Probably an even more significant thrust of this book is that the many sites described in the city are organized in a way that creates a historical narrative. So while this is not a comprehensive history of the city, the reader should come away with a sound background for why the city of Greenville, particularly how this award winning downtown, has developed the way it has.
Greenville has grown from a small trading post, to a resort community, to a regional industrial hub, to the mid-sized revitalized city at the dawn of the 21st century. This guide will prove to be very effective in giving historical and physical context for those enjoying this South Carolina city.
This guide is divided into five tours, or sections, that give the user easier ways to actually participate in physically linking the text with the real sites, which mostly can be found by walking. The five tours are the West End, South Main, North Main, notable architecture and Cultural sites.
Interesting anecdotes about particular sites, like the 1920’s competition to race to the top of the now demolished Woolworth building, by a local builder and an out of town show man; give charm and life to this book. Probably an even more significant thrust of this book is that the many sites described in the city are organized in a way that creates a historical narrative. So while this is not a comprehensive history of the city, the reader should come away with a sound background for why the city of Greenville, particularly how this award winning downtown, has developed the way it has.
Greenville has grown from a small trading post, to a resort community, to a regional industrial hub, to the mid-sized revitalized city at the dawn of the 21st century. This guide will prove to be very effective in giving historical and physical context for those enjoying this South Carolina city.
Displaying 1 of 1 review