Imperial Hotel, currently known as Greenville Summit, is a historic

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building located at

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. It was built in 1911–1912, and is a seven-story, U-shaped

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with a buff-colored brick veneer over a steel frame. It was originally a 90-room hotel, and expanded by 1930 to 250 rooms. The hotel closed in the early 1970s, but this establishment is still used as a nursing home for low income and disabled people 55 and over. An adjacent parking garage was demolished in the 1980s. It was added to the

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in 1982. New owners of the building plan extensive building renovations in 2019 and expansion in 2024.

References

External links

Greenville Summit official website
Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Commercial buildings completed in 1912 National Register of Historic Places in Greenville, South Carolina 1912 establishments in South Carolina {{GreenvilleCountySC-NRHP-stub