Perhaps even more grand than Smith’s was the East North Street home of Hamlin Beattie, a wealthy executive in the banking and textile industries. Photo courtesy of the author, John Nolan. Engraving from Health Resorts of the South by George Chapin, 1892. The two-story brick home with diagonally-projecting gables on each end of the roof had a prominent Italianate three-story tower in the middle of the façade decorated by a decorative projecting one-story porch.
His home stood on the west side of North Main Street between North and College - a city block owned entirely by him. Smith, an auctioneer, real estate broker, retailer, and large landowner. One of the more architecturally magnificent homes belonged to Julius C. was a typical domestic style from the late 19th century. Bentz was another important retailer with a large store at the corner of Main and East McBee streets. His Charleston-looking home had large porches on the first and second floors on several sides of the house. Miller was one of the city’s most prominent retail merchants in the Ferguson & Miller partnership with multiple stores and warehouses. Maxwell was an early physician in the city with the first hospital care facility, the Greenville Infirmary, located at Main and Coffee streets. (later called Highland and now Hampton Avenue) between Academy and Butler. Maxwell is a beautiful-yet-modest example of homes from this era. Chapin called Health Resorts of the South that shows wonderful engravings at some of the structures that merchants, professors and other locals called home. However, there’s a somewhat obscure publication from 1892 by George H. Few late 19 th century publications or photographs capture the homes on familiar streets around town. There are so many more houses that were loved and lived-in for generations that have been forgotten to time. Benjamin Perry’s San Souci Mansion or the Thompson-Cox House on North Main have been gone for many years but continue to be remembered as part of the Greenville story. Geer House on Hampton Avenue, and the Lanneau-Norwood House on Belmont Avenue. Some prominent homes have remained very familiar to Greenvillians because they are still here - places like the Wilkins House on Mills Avenue (formerly on Augusta), the Landrum House and J.M. Consequently, inner city and surrounding neighborhoods grew and homes became even more diverse in architectural style. In the decades following the Civil War, Greenville steadily recovered and prospered with a growing mercantile base, expanding population, agricultural output, additional educational facilities, and, most importantly, textile manufacturing.
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