Monticello Store and Post Office

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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.

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19th Century (38,130)
Built during 1820s (1,836)
Fairfield County MRA (24)
Fairfield County, South Carolina (54)
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Monticello, South Carolina (4)
Post office (838)
Private owner (54,402)
South Carolina (2,207)

Update Log 

• September 5, 2014: Photo imported by Michael Miller
• October 31, 2013: Updated by Michael Miller: Added "Description" & "Overview"
• October 31, 2013: New Street View added by Michael Miller

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• Michael Miller - michael_a_miller [at] yahoo [dot] com
• South Carolina Department of Archives and History
• National Register database - Reference number 84000584 (Search for documents)

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