{"id":25202,"date":"2016-05-18T19:07:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rootsandrecall.com\/york-county-sc\/?post_type=buildings&p=25202"},"modified":"2022-11-09T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T17:30:10","slug":"white-office-building-hampton-street","status":"publish","type":"buildings","link":"https:\/\/www.rootsandrecall.com\/york-county-sc\/buildings\/white-office-building-hampton-street\/","title":{"rendered":"London Printery – Hampton Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Building Has History\u00a0\u2122<\/span><\/h3>\n

Name: \u00a0London Printery Building<\/strong><\/p>\n

Architect: N.G. Walker<\/strong><\/p>\n

Builder: UN<\/strong><\/p>\n

Constructed: \u00a01909-10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Originally the London Business Building (including London Printing Company), attributed to architect Nathan Gaillard Walker in 1909. It was constructed for a cost of $12,000.\u00a0 J.R. London, the owner, and the London family in general had an interesting impact on the Rock Hill area for decades.<\/p>\n

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Bertha Wright (2nd from left) of Rock Hill, worked on the second floor of one of Hampton Street’s building, once used as a spinning room. Courtesy of the Porter Collection – 2012 – The Record also reported on Jan 2, 1908 – “The collar pad division of the Harriss Manufacturing Co., has vacated the second floor of the Record Building. All the machinery now having been moved to the new mill building.”<\/p><\/div>\n

London came to Yorkville (York, S.C.), in 1865, and opened the first mercantile business there, following the Civil War but later moved to Rock Hill, as it continued to economically surpass its older neighboring towns. \u00a0He later served as Rock Hill intendant, or mayor, the president of two cotton factories, and the vice-president of both of the city\u2019s banks.\u00a0 London investigated the soil in the \u201cBlackjack\u201d region between Rock Hill and Chester, called Mecklenburg-Iredell soil type. Using a sample of the soil from his own farm, he sent a sample of analysis and discovered that potash was lacking, and began importing vast amounts of potash and fertilizer that turned a sterile area into highly productive farmland.<\/p>\n

Reports from the Herald in later years reveal changes in this lots use.\u00a0 An article in 1923, reports renovations to the YMCA there, whose quarters were located over the Herald Offices.\u00a0 The Post office was also temporarily present on this lot in 1931, while the new Federal Building was being constructed.<\/p>\n

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This Building Has History\u00a0\u2122 Name: \u00a0London Printery Building Architect: N.G. Walker Builder: UN Constructed: \u00a01909-10 Originally the London Business Building (including London Printing Company), attributed to architect Nathan Gaillard Walker in 1909. It was constructed for a cost of $12,000.\u00a0 J.R. London, the owner, and the London family in general had an interesting impact on… <\/p>\n

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