Upstairs
UPSTAIRS, you’ll step back in time as you stroll the streetscape of 1880s Main Street Greenville and peek into the windows of businesses and residences from yesteryear to picture what life was like long ago. Read the story about how the stained glass window came to be, as you marvel at its beauty.
Meander “Main Street Greenville” Upstairs
(click on blue circles in the tour to move to different areas)
STAINED GLASS WINDOW
Female Voice reading about the Window
After the Greenville Union School was destroyed by fire in 1911, it was replaced on the same site by the Greenville Central School, built in 1912. A huge clock was purchased by students and community and installed above the main entrance facing Franklin Street.
In 1977, when the new Middle School was built and the Central School was torn down, the clock was saved and given to the Flat River Historical Museum to preserve. A large round hole was cut in the front of the museum building to install the clock where all could see it.
When the school’s new Legacy Field was built in 2012 the school wanted a big clock to install in the plaza at the north end of the field and the museum agreed to return the clock to the school. From Central School in 1912 … to Legacy Field in 2012 … It was dubbed “The Centennial Clock”.
But what about the hole in the museum building?
A local artist and craftsman, Jack Bailey, constructed a stained-glass window to fill the round hole. The design depicts John Green right here on this spot, gazing out to the Flat River and the area he founded that would later be named after him, the town of Greenville!
