Palmetto Building

{{Short description|Early skyscraper in Columbia, South Carolina}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

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| name = Palmetto Building

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| image = Palmetto Building, 1400 Main Street at Washington Street, Columbia (Richland County, South Carolina).jpg

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| location = 1400 Main St., Columbia, South Carolina

| coordinates = {{coord|34|0|14|N|81|2|5|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = South Carolina#USA

| built = 1913

| architect = Julius Harder

| architecture = Skyscraper

| added = November 25, 1980

| area = {{convert|0.1|acre}}

| refnum = 80003696{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

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The Palmetto Building, built during 1912–1913, is an early skyscraper in Columbia, South Carolina.{{Cite web | last = | first = | title = Palmetto Building | work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = October 1980 | url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/richland/S10817740063/S10817740063.pdf | accessdate = 25 August 2012}}{{Cite web | title = Palmetto Building, Richland County (1400 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/S10817740063/index.htm | accessdate = 25 August 2012}} It was designed by architect Julius Harder, and Wilson and Sompayrac served as supervising architects. Upon completion it was the tallest building in South Carolina at {{Convert|215|ft|abbr=on}} and with 15 floors.

The Palmetto Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Since the mid-2000s, it has housed the Sheraton Columbia Downtown Hotel.{{cite web |title=Sheraton Columbia Downtown Hotel |url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/127587/sheraton-columbia-downtown-hotel-columbia-sc-usa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150514022633/http://www.emporis.com/buildings/127587/sheraton-columbia-downtown-hotel-columbia-sc-usa |url-status=usurped |archive-date=May 14, 2015 |website=Emporis |access-date=December 17, 2020}}

It was important in the architectural career of Charles Coker Wilson, establishing his credentials for steel frame skyscraper construction.{{cite web|url= http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000506

|title= Wilson, Charles C. (1864-1933)|author= Wells, John E. and Catherine W. Bishir|year= 2010|work= North Carolina Architects and Builders: A Biographical Dictionary|publisher=NCSU Libraries}}{{failed verification|date=December 2011}}