Bank of Denmark Building
Historic Property
Alternate Name:
The McCain Agency
Street Address:
southeast corner of Palmetto Avenue and Baruch Street (tax map 38-05), Denmark, SC
Site Number:
S108042001400331
Site Number:
5-67-45
Date Surveyed:
June 11 1982
Category:
Building
Construction Date:
circa 1920
Current Use:
Commerce/Trade
Construction Method:
brick
Signficant Architectural Features:
Two-story commercial building, rectangular in plan, constructed of red brick. Around the flat roof of the building is a parapet, below which is an entablature with dentil course and egg and dart molding. Front (west elevation): symmetrical: central front entrance features a six-panel door framed by a rectangular five-light transom and three-pane sidelights; on either side of the entrance is a large, multi-pane window; sheltering the first floor of the facade is a hipped metal roof with boxed cornice and wrought iron brackets at either end; on the second floor are three double-hung windows with a continuous concrete or stone sill - the central window has eight-over-eight lights, the two smaller windows are 6/6; at the corners of the building are brick pilasters with concrete (or stone?) capitals and bases, which rest on brick pedestals. North elevation: is divided into three equal parts by four pilasters, which are like those of the front; the center and westernmost divisions of this elevation are identical - each contains a tripartite window on the first floor (a single-sash plate glass window between two 1/1 windows, each window having a transom panel) and three double-hung, 6/6 windows on the second floor; the easternmost division is identical on the second floor to the other two, but has a single-leaf glazed door and double window on the first floor; all the windows of this elevation have continuous concrete or stone sills; the pilaster at the west corner contains a U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey Bench Mark dated 1918.
Alterations:
altered - building was sandblasted about ten years ago; interior has been remodeled; transoms of the first floor windows on the north elevation have either been painted or replaced with wood; windows and door of the facade’s first floor have been changed; original awning appears to have been replaced.
Historical Information:
According to an employee of the McCain Agency, the president of the Bank of Denmark was Mr. J. Arthur Wiggins, who died in 1925 (the same year that the bank folded.)
Source of Historical Information:
Sanborn maps of Denmark: 1908-1931; Denmark Urban Design Study (1978).;employee of the McCain Agency, Denmark, S.C.
Survey:
Denmark - City, 1980/1982
Archives Location:
Box 14, Series 108042, Survey of historic resources (county by county data on surface properties), circa 1971-2014
