Orangeburg Downtown Historic District - Orangeburg, SC - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

The Orangeburg Downtown Historic District is significant as a very intact collection of resources which were important in the commercial, industrial, architectural, governmental and social history of Orangeburg during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A majority of the buildings in the district were built between ca. 1883 and ca. 1925 when Orangeburg underwent tremendous growth. The district is a collection of forty-four buildings and one structure and consists of store buildings, Orangeburg’s first textile mill, a livery stable, a statue, two churches, a post office, two lodge halls, and a brick paved street. Buildings in the district are constructed mainly of brick and display various architectural characteristics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Romanesque Revival, Victorian, and Neo-Classical. Listed in the National Register September 20, 1985.


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Street address: Russell, Broughton, Middleton, Church, Meeting, St. John, Hampton, and Amelia Sts Orangeburg, SC usa 00000 County / Borough / Parish: Orangeburg Year listed: 1985 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering Periods of significance: 1850-1874, 1875-1899, 1900-1924, 1925-1949 Historic function: Commerce/Trade, Government, Industry/Processing/Extraction, Religion: City Hall, Manufacturing Facility, Religious Structure, Specialty Store Current function: Commerce/Trade, Government, Religion: City Hall, Religious Structure, Specialty Store Privately owned?: yes Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 1: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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