Efird's Department Store

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Efird's Department Store

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| image = Efirds Department Store building, Columbia, SC - 4.jpeg

| caption = Efird's Department Store in April, 2015

| location = 1601 Main St., Columbia, South Carolina

| coordinates = {{coord|34|00|24|N|81|02|10|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = South Carolina#USA

| built = {{Start date|1870}}, 1919

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| added = October 9, 2012

| area = Less than one acre

| refnum = 12000850{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/weekly-list-2012-national-register-of-historic-places.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2012-10-19|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 10/09/12 through 10/12/12|publisher=National Park Service}}

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Efird's Department Store, also known as Lourie's Department Store, is a historic department store building located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built about 1870, and is a rectangular brick building renovated and expanded in 1919. This included the addition of a third story and the installation of a new brick façade and store entrances. Between 1919 and 1958, it housed the Columbia branch of the Charlotte, North Carolina based Efird's Department Store chain.{{Cite web |author = Rebecca Bush| title =Efird's Department Store| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = August 2012 | url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/richland/S10817740154/S10817740154.pdf | accessdate = 2014-01-07}}{{Cite web | title =Efrid's Department Store, Richland County (1601 Main St., Columbia)| work = National Register Properties in South Carolina | publisher = South Carolina Department of Archives and History | url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/richland/S10817740154/index.htm | accessdate =2014-01-07}} It currently houses a Mast General Store, which moved in on May 25, 2011.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

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