Louise Eustis Hitchcock Memorial Clinic

Historic Property

Alternate Name:

The Retina Eye Center

Street Address:

721 Richland Ave. W, Aiken, SC (Aiken County)

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Site Number:

03_1691

Control Number:

U/03/1691

Date Surveyed:

February 3 2010

Category:

Building

Construction Date:

1942

Historic Use:

Health Care

Current Use:

Health Care

Historic Core Shape:

Rectangular

Number of Stories:

1

Construction Method:

frame

Exterior Walls Materials:

Brick Veneer

Foundation Materials:

Slab Construction

National Register Determination:

contributes to eligible district;

Signficant Architectural Features:

double door entry w/transom flanked by Doric columns; frieze board has historic name engraved in it; parapet wall on exterior of main block; rowlock sills for sinwos; soldier coursed lintels; orig. 6/6 windows found singly; orig. doors; roundtracery window in parapet gable ends; rear porch w//orig. supports. Prev. SHPO No. 483

Alterations:

None apparent to building, large rear parking lot and front driveway

Historical Information:

Built on site of Aiken Sanitarium (shown as such on 1918 & 1925 Sanborn maps; as Aiken Cottage on 1935) winter cottage for tuberculosis sufferers and convalescent's. Aiken's winter colony helped to fund the clinic.

Source of Historical Information:

Sanborn map. Aiken Scrapbook, Vol. One, p. 179.

Survey:

City of Aiken Historic Resources Survey, Aiken County, South Carolina. May 2010

Quadrangle Name:

Aiken

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