{"id":1431,"date":"2010-02-18T00:53:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T05:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2010-02-18T01:02:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T06:02:45","slug":"bank-of-columbia-the-argyle-social-club-the-lorick-lowrance-mercantile-building-1537-main-street-late-2000s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1431","title":{"rendered":"Lorick &#038; Lowrance Mercantile \/ The Bank of Columbia \/ The Argyle Social Club, 1537 Main Street: late 2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/lease01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/lease01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/lease02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/lease02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/lease04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/lease04_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/lease05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/lease05_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/lease06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/lease06_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/lease07.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/02\/lease07_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, I'm not entirely sure what to make of this one.  The <i>Lorick & Lowrance Mercantile Building<\/i> is another of those great old Main Street buildings, with all the fancy work on top, and is on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.sc.gov\/tasks\/sites\/coc\/assets\/File\/Dev_Services\/DD_DP_Maps\/Landmarks_List_GIS.pdf\">City of Columbia landmark list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don't know what <i>Lorick & Lowrance Mercantile<\/i> originally sold, but the name suggests general retail merchandise.  Anyway, it seems prosaic enough.<\/p>\n<p>Where it gets a little odd is with the introduction of the <i>Columbia Atheneum<\/i> and <i>Argyle Social Club<\/i>.  If you go to the \"history\" tab on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walterhsmith.com\/\">this site<\/a>, you'll find the story of a 150 year old Columbia high-rollers club \"[whose] location has been kept hidden from the general public\" --  It almost sounds like a put-on, your 2nd grade secret-clubhouse on steroids..<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, the plan apparently was to come out of hiding, sell shares and buy the <i>Lorick<\/i> building.  (There's a litle more information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citycentercolumbia.sc\/pdfs\/CCP_Newsletter_Jan_07.pdf\">here<\/a>).  Since this was all supposed to happen in 2007 and the building is for lease today, I would say that something went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the building now has <a href=\"http:\/\/1537main.com\/\">its own web site<\/a>..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I'm not entirely sure what to make of this one. The Lorick &#038; Lowrance Mercantile Building is another of those great old Main Street buildings, with all the fancy work on top, and is on the City of Columbia landmark list. I don't know what Lorick &#038; Lowrance Mercantile originally sold, but the name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,5,9,12,4],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-historic","tag-landmark","tag-nightclub","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}