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Walterboro Library Society Building

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Built
  
1820 (1820)

Opened
  
1820

Added to NRHP
  
14 October 1971

NRHP Reference #
  
71000767

Area
  
1,200 m²

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Location
  
801 Wichman St., Walterboro, South Carolina

Architectural styles
  
Palladian architecture, Federal architecture

Walterboro Library Society Building is a historic library building located at Walterboro, Colleton County, South Carolina. It was built in 1820, and is a small, white, Federal style frame building with a side-gabled roof. The front façade features a Palladian-style door surround capped by a fanlight. The building is occupied by the Colleton County Historical Society. When Walterboro was incorporated in 1826, the town boundaries were established as “3/4 of a mile in every direction from the Walterboro Library."

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is located in the Walterboro Historic District.

References

Walterboro Library Society Building Wikipedia


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