Robert Quillen Office and Library

	Robert Quillen Office and Library
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Robert Quillen Office and Library, February 2012
Location	200 N. Main St., Fountain Inn, South Carolina
Coordinates	34°41′40″N 82°12′01″W / 34.69444°N 82.20028°W
Area	Less than one acre
Built	1928
NRHP reference No.	10000316
Added to NRHP	January 30, 2012

Robert Quillen Office and Library is an historic office and library building located at Fountain Inn, Greenville County, South Carolina. It was built in 1928, and is a small one-story, one-room brick Neo-Classical Revival building with a distinctive temple front. Directly in front of the Office are a rectangular reflecting pool and a round pool, and a granite obelisk known as the "Monument to Eve." Born in 1887 in Syracuse, Kansas, Robert Quillen moved to Fountain Inn in 1911 to start the Fountain Inn Tribune. He wrote paragraphs, editorials, one-liners, and cartoons for the Baltimore Sun, the Saturday Evening Post, and The American Magazine. Quillen died after a prolonged illness on December 9, 1948.^[2]^[3]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 1/30/12 through 2/03/12. National Park Service. 2012-02-10.
^ Jason L. Harpe (December 2011). "Robert Quillen Office and Library" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 1, 2014.
^ "Robert Quillen Office and Library, Greenville County (200 N. Main St., Fountain Inn)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 1, 2014.

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[nps-1] "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 1/30/12 through 2/03/12. National Park Service. 2012-02-10.

[nrhpinv-2] Jason L. Harpe (December 2011). "Robert Quillen Office and Library" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 1, 2014.

[scdah-3] "Robert Quillen Office and Library, Greenville County (200 N. Main St., Fountain Inn)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 1, 2014.

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