Hampton Terrace Hotel, North Augusta

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The Hampton Terrace Hotel was located in North Augusta, South Carolina. The Hampton Terrace burned down on New Years Eve of 1916.

James U. Jackson organized the North Augusta Hotel Company. It cost circa. $536,000 to build the hotel. The hotel was completed in April of 1902, and in December of 1903 it was opened to the public. The Hampton Terrace was located on a hill that overlooking the surrounding countryside. The hotel was very important to the local economy and outranked both cotton and banking in its profits. The Augusta Chronicle (a local newspaper) highlighted the hotel as one of the best in the country. The Hampton Terrace represented the epitome of Augusta's hotels. The hotel itself occupied the entire city of North Augusta.

Few people realize that the Hampton Terrace was a great part of North Augusta's development. The hotel had five floors, four of which contained rooms for five hundred guests, and three hundred rooms. The frame on the building grounds was longer than two football fields and had enough windows for seventy average sized houses.