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The Poinsett Hotel Top Photo: The "old" Poinsett. From South Main Street, looking north. Ground breaking for the Poinsett Hotel was May 30, 1924. The Poinsett cost $1.5 million and opened one hundred rooms in June 1925. The renovation and restoration was $20 million in the year 2000. This photo was taken early in the process of restoration for reopening in October 2000. Ground breaking info source: Greenville, The History of the City and County in the South Carolina Piedmont, by Archie Vernon Huff, Jr. ISBN 1-57003-045-6, University of South Carolina Press. Available in bookstores. Middle photo: From behind the project. Construction of the Poinsett Plaza and parking garage. Bottom photo: Nearly done. Same view from behind, almost completed Poinsett Plaza and parking garage. --gs
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Photos: © 2006 greenvillesouth.com --gs
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