Simpsonville Library

Front: 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: 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.