Old Market Building | |
Location: | Front and Screven Sts., Georgetown, South Carolina |
Coordinates: | 33.3656°N -79.2825°W |
Built: | -1835, 1842 |
Added: | December 3, 1969 |
Refnum: | 69000166 |
Old Market Building, also known as the Rice Museum, is a historic public market building located at Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina. It was built in 1832–1835, and is a one-story, Classical Revival temple-form building on a high arcaded base.
The arched area was used as an open-air market but was enclosed in the early-20th century. A tower topped by a square stage and an open belfry was added. The tower houses a four-sided clock that was added in about 1842. The building has served as a town hall, a jail, an open-air market, and a slave market.[1] [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.