Lafayette Hotel

The Hotel Thurmond was later renamed the Lafayette Hotel and served visitors to Thurmond for years.

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The first Hotel Thurmond, built in 1891, burned down but was quickly replaced by a new hotel in 1902. The new hotel, known as the Lafayette Hotel, had thirty-five rooms and seven bathrooms. The hotel also boasted steam heat and four hundred electric lights. The dining room could hold sixty people.

Besides serving as a hotel, the Lafayette Hotel also had several business and shops. A jewelry store and barber shop operated on the first floor of the hotel. For many years, it was also home to the post office and Bank of Thurmond. A large staircase on the first floor led patrons to the hotel lobby on the second floor. Tragically, the hotel burned down in 1963. Only the back brick wall of the hotel remains.

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