Ram Cat Alley Historic District

National Register Listing

Street Address:

Ram Cat Alley and North Townville St., Seneca, SC (Oconee County)

Alternate Name:

Seneca Downtown Historic District

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817737014

Description and Narrative:

(Seneca Downtown Historic District) The Ram Cat Alley Historic District is significant as an intact public, commercial, and social center of the City of Seneca. The district is a collection of twenty-one commercial buildings in downtown Seneca. Eighteen buildings contribute to the character of the historic district, which reflect the development of the downtown area as the center of commerce in Seneca and the surrounding county from ca. 1887 to ca. 1930. The district is a typical example of architectural and commercial development around the growth of the railroad in a small South Carolina town in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Ram Cat Alley was so called because of the tendency of cats to gather around the Fred Hopkins Meat Market which was located on that street in ca. 1908. Listed in the National Register March 24, 2000.

Period of Significance:

circa 1887 – 1930

Level of Significance:

Local

Area of Significance:

Architecture;Commerce

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

March 24 2000

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