Shuler Building; Williams' Grocery

Historic Property

Alternate Name:

Plum Pudding

Street Address:

101 Laurens St. NW, Aiken, SC (Aiken County)

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Site Number:

03_1759

Control Number:

U/03/1759

Date Surveyed:

October 29 2009

Category:

Building

Construction Date:

circa 1915

Alteration Date:

1988

Historic Use:

Unknown

Current Use:

Unknown

Historic Core Shape:

L

Number of Stories:

2

Construction Method:

frame

Exterior Walls Materials:

Brick Veneer

Foundation Materials:

Not Visible

National Register Determination:

contributes to eligible district;

Signficant Architectural Features:

Large corner commercial store front; chamfered corner with main entrance; metal balcony with decorative metal railing; streamline parapet wall with decorative brick banding; decorative header over windows; main floor storefronts has metal pilasters; transom over front entrance.. Prev. SHPO No. 551

Alterations:

Mid 20th C window infill; Late 20th C replacement windows.

Historical Information:

Shown on 1935 Sanborn Map as l acre corner store and four shops (901-909 Laurens Street). Corner section remembered as Robert Williams' Grocery. 1918 Sanborn map shows corner grocery, with grocery, meats, cobbler, and baker in the four northern shops, along Laurens Street. This structure replaced an earlier block of one-story offices and "sample rooms" which faced Richland Avenue, shown on the 1909 Sanborn map. The 1899 map shows a large one story "steam printing plant" at this corner, facing Richland Avenue. This site was the location of Shuler Building; buildings presently known as Simmons Building.

Source of Historical Information:

G. L. Toole, III; Lillian Redd; Sanborn maps.

Survey:

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

Quadrangle Name:

Aiken

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