Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Gassaway Mansion

Gassaway Mansion

This anachronistic stone castle, called the Gassaway Mansion is one of Greenville’s most astonishing buildings. This building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and strangely blends several architectural styles. It was built between 1920 and 1924 by Walter and Minnie Gassaway for $ 790,000 and was composed in part of stones gathered in 1919 from the old Vardy McBee grits mill. The grits mill was located in downtown Greenville along the Reedy River and dates back to 1776. Additional stones were brought in and were treated to match.

Prominent interior features of the mansion include 22,000 square feet, 5 floors, and 40 rooms, a grand, sweeping mahogany staircase, Waterford crystal chandeliers, rich cherry woodwork, wood paneling and flooring from New York, tiles from Italy, and stained glass windows from Tiffany’s.
The Greenville Art Association purchased the house in 1958 for use as a art museum. Because the house could no longer accommodate the growing art collection in the 70’s, the Art Association built a new Art Museum on Heritage Green and moved in spring 1974.

In 1977 the house was used as a church school by the Emanuel Temple. Today the mansion functions as an event facility for weddings.

The house is located at: 106 Dupoint Drive, Greenville, SC

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Farmers Hall

pendleton

The historic Farmers Hall Society building was built in 1826
in the Greek revival style.
This beautiful building is located on the southwest corner of the village green in downtown Pendleton.
It was planned as the District’s Court House, but the seat of government was moved before the building was completed.
The local farmers completed the building as the Farmer’s Hall Society building, and it has been in use by this organization ever since.
It is the oldest Farmers Hall still in continuous use in the US and Pendleton’s beautiful centerpiece.
The first floor was used as the U.S. Post Office and the second floor
as the meeting hall. Today a distinguished restaurant is located
on the first floor.
The Guard House, in the background was build in 1860 on the
former old town jail and serves as the magistrate’s office.

Pendelton Townsquare will host the event ‘Upstate Old Fashioned Children’s Games’ on 11/1/08 and ‘European Art & Music Fair on 11/8/08. Please find more information about both events at: events

Discover many more Upstate events and festivals in November on our:Events List for 11/08

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Monday, June 2, 2008

Fine Arts Center Greenville, SC

Fine Arts Center

Greenville’s Fine Art Center is a very unique and the first specialized arts school in South Carolina.
The Fine Arts Center provides advanced and comprehensive arts instruction to high school students who are artistically talented and would like to take intensive pre-professional studies.

All high school students can apply to the Fine Arts Center and are selected on basis of talent, interest, motivation and commitment to their disciplin.

Students are able to study theatre, dance, visual
arts, music, creative writing,
film and video production.
They attend classes at the Fine Arts Center five days a week, in the morning or afternoon, spending the remainder of their time in other academic
classes at the home high school.
Every year ca. 350 students attend the Fine Arts Center in Greenville and some ninety %
of that number go on to higher education.

Fine Arts Center
Map

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Friday, April 4, 2008

Greenville Fakten (German)

Informationen über Greenville


Greenville liegt im Nordwesten von South Carolina, am Fuss der Appalachen und dem Ufer des Reedy River, ca. 230 Kilometer nordöstlich von Atlanta in Georgia und 160 Kilometer südwestlich von Charlotte in North Carolina.
Fakten
3 Partnerstädte :
Bergamo, Italy
Kortrijk Belgium
Tianjin Free Trade Zone, People’s Republic of China.Breitengrad 34.85 Längengrad 82.35Greenville liegt zwischen 300 - 1000 Metern über dem Meeresspiegel.
ZIP Codes / Postleitzahlen 29601, 29605, 29607, 29609, 29611, 29615
Greenville County, Telefonvorwahl 864
Die internationale Vorwahlnummer für die USA ist 001 und die Telefonvorwahl für Greenville 864. Um aus dem Ausland nach Greenville anzurufen wählt man 001 + 864 + die lokale Nummer. Um aus den USA ins Ausland anzurufen wählt man 011 + die Landesvorwahl + die Kreisvorwahlnummer + lokale Nummer. Um in den USA Ferngespräche zu führen wählt man die 1 + Vorwahlnummer + lokale Nummer.Time Zone:
Eastern Standard Time:
(GMT -5 hours, DST: GMT -4 hours). Sommerzeit beginnt am zweiten Sonntag im März und endet am ersten Sontag im November.

Greenville - Fläche 65.005 sq. kilometers / 25.38 sq. miles.

Im Jahr 2006 lebten in Greenville County ca. 420 000 Einwohner;
56, 000 Personen leben im inneren Stadtgebiet.

Im July liegt die durchschnittliche Höchsttemperatur bei 88 Grad Fahrenheit / 31 Grad Celsius und die niedrigste Durchschnittstemperatur bei 68 Grad Fahrenheit / 20 Grad Celsius. Im Januar liegt die durchschnittliche Höchsttemperatur bei 50 Grad Fahrenheit / 10 Grad Celsius und die niedrigste Durchschnittstemperatur bei 1 Grad Celsius.
Die Stromspannung ist 120 V / 60 Hz.

Für die Umrechnung von Masseinheiten nutzten Sie bitte unsere - Umrechnungstabellen

Auf die meisten Waren und Dienstleistungen werden 5 % Steuer erhoben. In einigen Gemeinden und auf manche Leistungen werden zusätzlich 1% Steuer erhoben.- Steuerinformation.

Es ist üblich für bestimmte Dienstleistungen Trinkgeld zu geben, z.B.:
Bedienung: 15-20 % der Rechnung
Taxifahrer: 15%
Frisör: 15%

Staatliche Feiertage:
New Year’s Day / January 1st
Martin Luther King Day / 3rd Monday in January
President’s Day / in February
Memorial Day / Last Monday in May
Independence Day / July 4th
Labor Day / 1st Monday in September
Columbus Day / 2nd Monday in September
Veterans Day / in November
Thanksgiving / 4th Thursday in November
Christmas / December 25th

Fällt ein Feiertag auf einen Tag des Wochenendes wird der Feiertag vorschoben. Fällt der Feiertag auf den Sonntag, wird der Feiertag am Montag gefeiert, fällt der Feiertag auf den Samstag wird der Feiertag meist auf den Freitag vorgezogen.

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