The 68,000-square-foot warehouse of cotton broker Edmund Warren Montgomery

The 68,000-square-foot warehouse of cotton broker Edmund Warren Montgomery

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Before it was luxury apartments, this brick building served as a major cotton warehouse in South Carolina.

The E. W. Montgomery Cotton Warehouse, also known as the Greenville Bonded Cotton Warehouse, is a historic building in Greenville, South Carolina. The original section of the warehouse was built about 1928. Following the property's purchase in 1933 by Edmund Warren Montgomery, a significant cotton merchant and broker in upstate South Carolina during the early-to-mid-20th century, three additions were completed to the property.

The building is a two-story brick structure measuring 553 feet long and 60 feet deep. It contains 68,000 square feet divided into seven bays. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

Today, the building is known as the Elements West Apartments.

Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons

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