But as the former home of the Greenville Memorial Auditorium, the site is especially significant for many Greenville natives. “It was just the kind of place where, you know, exciting things happen.

American civil rights activist, the Rev. Jesse Jackson asked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to visit the city, where he spoke to a crowd of 3,500 at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium to support the ...

Known locally as the “home show,” the Southern Home and Garden Show has been an annual fixture in the Upstate since 1961, when it debuted at the old Greenville Memorial Auditorium. There were ...