State & Federal Historic Tax Credits, State Abandoned Building Tax Credit, Bailey Bill
Columbia, SC
1914, 1920, 1940
Sumter LLC
Boudreaux, Mashburn Construction, POND Interiors
Hotel Trundle, Boudreaux Architecture Firm
Hotel Trundle and Boudreaux artfully combined three separate buildings from three eras into two distinctive spaces. Occupying both levels of the Western Auto and Rose-Talbert Paints as well as the first floor of the Powell Furniture Building, Hotel Trundle capitalized on the unique character of each building to inform its design, while creating a cohesive vision for the hotel. The Powell Furniture Building retained the pressed tin ceilings, removed the non-historic exterior paint, restored the original storefront design, and creatively incorporated hotel rooms with lower ceiling heights to maintain the full height of the historic mercantile space. At Western Auto, the original baked enamel exterior sign was wrapped in vinyl to retain a prominent feature while advertising the building’s new use. Original windows and exposed metal decking on the second floor remained while the first floor retained the highly finished appearance of a 1940s commercial building. The iconic Modern tripartite window on the second floor of Rose-Talbert Paints was carefully restored while a new second floor addition, which was not visible from the street, added additional rooms. The asymmetrical storefront, complete with pigmented structural glass, was restored on the building’s façade. Boudreaux’s second floor office in the Powell Furniture Building retained the pressed tin ceilings, hardwood floors, and signature row of columns down the center of the building.
Three buildings range in construction dates from 1914 to 1940, with unique designs and histories for each. The Rose-Talbert Paints building, 1222 Taylor Street, was constructed in 1914 and was renovated in 1936 to feature a Modern design when Rose-Talbert Paints purchased the building. By the 1980s, a standard aluminum storefront replaced the asymmetrical storefront design.
The Powell Furniture Building was constructed in 1920 and originally housed the Home Light & Power Company, followed by a number of electrical and light products stores until 1960 when Powell Furniture Company purchased the building, which remained until the late 1980s. Constructed in 1940, Western Auto occupied 1224 Taylor Street until 1985 when a nearby church purchased the building for its downtown ministries.
