Building at 1644 Main Street - Columbia, SC
N 34° 00.439 W 081° 02.162
17S E 496672 N 3762967
More commonly known as Tapp's Department Store, one of many historic buildings in the downtown area.
Waymark Code: WM9JH7
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 08/26/2010
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(Tapp’s Department Store) Tapp’s represents one of Columbia’s most significant large-scale private building projects from the Depression era that remains relatively unaltered. The white stucco and dark tremolite stone facade is characteristic of the most up-to-date modern style in 1940, the building’s date of construction. The building has little ornamentation except vertical bands of windows, a clock face and a sign with a large freestanding letters. Added onto about 1950, the additional two floors are also of white stucco over concrete. As the only example of “Depression Modern” on Main Street, the building contributes to the continuum of architectural styles on the street. The central section originally extended higher than the two flanking sections; with the ca. 1950 additions, however, the roofline was made uniform. The original roofline is still discernible in stucco. E. Paul Behles of New York City designed the interior and acted as consulting architect to Lafaye, Lafaye, and Fair of Columbia for the design of the exterior. Listed in the National Register March 2, 1979.
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