This Building Has History ™
Name: McFadden Building
Architect: Unknown
Builder: Unknown
Constructed: 1918-20
In 1859, the Indian-Land Chronicle reported that Dr. Robert C. Hanna, one of Rock Hill’s first physicians, had purchased this lot from A.T. Black. Sometime in the following year, Dr. Hanna acquired roughly 30 feet of an adjoining lot, creating a one acre tract of land. The larger lot was sold in 1860 to Thomas E. Roddy for $400.
Roddey was killed during the Civil War, on October 18, 1861. Following his death, the house changed hands many times over the next few decades, and was purchased in 1893 as a medical practice, by Dr. Thomas Allison Crawford and his partner Dr. W. Frank Strait, who was Rock Hill’s first surgeon. Failing health led Dr. Strait to sell his half of the interest to Crawford in 1897.
From time to time, Crawford would sell off portions of the lot, as he did in 1918 to D.B. McFadden. McFadden built a large, two-story brick building to house an automobile agency. This structure became known as the McFadden building, and went on to serve as Soil Conservation offices. The remaining part of the lot has housed many businesses over the years, including the Bass Furniture Company and Funeral Directors, two car companies, the Singer Sewing Machine Company, and the Hat and Bridal Shoppe.
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