Monticello Store and Post Office
National Register Listing
Street Address:
Off SC 215, Monticello, SC (Fairfield County)
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817720026
Description and Narrative:
The Monticello Store and Post Office is an unusually intact example of an antebellum rural store. Stylistically, the building appears to date from the mid-nineteenth century; however, local tradition suggests that it could have been built as early as 1820. It was reportedly owned by the Reverend Jonathan Davis, a prominent minister and state legislator from Fairfield District in the early nineteenth century. According to local tradition the rear portion of the store was used as a dormitory for the Jefferson-Monticello Academy in the 1820s. The building was used as a store and post office after the Civil War until the mid-1960s. The Monticello Store and Post Office is a one-story, frame, weatherboarded, T-shaped building. The front portion of the building has a gable roof with the gable end facing the road. The rear portion has a transverse gable roof. The main feature of the façade is an undercut gallery with a pedimented gable supported by octagonal wooden columns. The façade is sheathed in flushboard with a chair rail and has a double-leaf, center entrance with plain surround flanked by windows with paneled wooden shutters. The roof is wood shingled. Listed in the National Register December 6, 1984.
Period of Significance:
1820
Level of Significance:
State
Area of Significance:
Commerce
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
December 6 1984
