Cheerwine Buiding

One of the most architecturally distinguished of the surviving early twentieth century commercial and manufacturing businesses located near the railroad depot is the Cheerwine/Carolina Beverage Corportation building.  Constructed in 1913, the building was originally leased to the Mint-Cola Company who created the "Cheerwine" drink and eventually reorganized as the Carolina Beverage Corporation.

The yellow brick main elevation of the Cheerwine Building has a two-part arrangement accentuated by a pair of false stone-coped triangular parapets crowning the roofline.  Granite quoins enframe the large single bays on the first story and rise to the molded stone cornice.  The false parapets are each ornamented with a trio of stone-accented small windows whose mutins form a criss-cross pattern.

Source: National Historic Register Nomination form, 1987