What makes downtown Fountain Inn
The blocks around North and South Main Street are Fountain Inn's historic core, a stretch of vintage brick storefronts that now hold local restaurants, coffee shops, boutiques, and the Fountain Inn Natural History Museum. The anchor is the Younts Center for Performing Arts, housed in the 1939 former Fountain Inn High School building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and stages concerts, theater, and community events year round.
Commerce Park hosts the city's farmers market from May through September, the fountain at Rotary Park gives the city its motif, and the Aunt Het Festival fills Main Street each October. The town grew up around the Greenville and Laurens Railroad in the 1880s, and the depot era street grid is why the district still works at walking scale even as the city around it has grown quickly.
The homes in the downtown historic district
The streets around Main Street carry Victorian era and early 1900s houses, cottages and bungalows on in town lots, along with mid century homes on the next ring of streets and a growing number of renovations and infill builds. It is not a platted subdivision, so this page shows the wider Fountain Inn market; tell us you want to walk to Main Street and we will hand pick the matches.
For a buyer, the trade is clear: an older house that may need work, in exchange for a location where dinner, the farmers market, and a show at the Younts Center are on foot.
Getting around from downtown Fountain Inn
Main Street is Highway 14, which reaches I-385 in a couple of minutes, putting Simpsonville's Fairview Road at about ten minutes, the Woodruff Road corridor at about twenty, and downtown Greenville at roughly thirty. Woodside Park's fields and trails are a short drive, and the Swamp Rabbit Trail's southern extension is planned to reach Fountain Inn.
School assignments are set by address and we confirm zoning on any specific home; homes here are individual rather than one builder's plan, so ask us for comparable sales on the specific street before relying on any figure.
