Greenville County · Marker 23-60
Simpsonville Library
Corner at Academy St. and E. Curtis St. at 102 Academy St., Simpsonville
Front inscription
This Classical Revival building, constructed in 1940, was the Simpsonville Branch of the Greenville County Library until 1997. The first town library started ca. 1915 when Miss Nannie Cox, a literature teacher, placed books in the window of R.D. Jones’s furniture store on South Main Street. A more formal library was later on the second floor of the Simpsonville City Hall on East Curtis Street.
Reverse inscription
This building, the first separate library in the town, was built by the Work Projects Administration at a cost of $7,400, with significant local donations as well. It features two reading rooms, one often serving as a community center. The library was renovated and expanded in 1968. It closed in 1997 with the opening of the Hendricks Branch of the Greenville County Library on Northeast Main Street.