1736-1738 Main Street
The Boyne Building
Members of the Boyne family, which initially operated a marble yard and blacksmith shop from this property, commissioned architects with the firm of Sams & Carter to design this Italianate style building, which was completed in 1901--the same year as the neighboring Brown Building to the south. The Boyne Building historically had many uses and tenants, including a grocery and meat market, as well as drug, candy and shoe stores on its ground floor and a boarding house and hotel within its second and third stories. From the 1940s through the early 2000s, however, this building was known as the location of the Elite Epicurean – one of the city’s leading restaurants
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Boyne and Brown buildings, 1978. Image courtesy Russell Maxey Photograph Collection, Richland Library
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You'd never know who you may run into at the Elite Epicurean, as this fender-bender captured in front of the Boyne and Brown buildings in 1972 by photographer Russell Maxey attests. Image courtesy Russell Maxey Photograph Collection, Richland Library
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1700 block of Main Street, 1919. Image courtesy Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia
