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Greenville Attractions

As the largest city in the Upstate, a term which refers to the northernmost part of the state, Greenville offers many activities and attractions. Major concerts and touring theatre companies are regularly featured at the city’s venues. Four independent theatres present several plays a year.

Annual Events

Each March, InnoVenture is an event designed to help Communities of Innovation around corporations, universities, and emerging companies in the Southeastern Innovation Corridor.

Annually in April is ARTISPHERE , a showcase of the arts. The event reflects the area's international flair and provides a diverse menu of experiences that center around the arts.

Held on the 2nd weekend of every October is the St. Francis Fall for Greenville festival. This festival features local cuisine, live performances on several stages, and the Greenville Cycling Classic bicycle race.

Arts in the Park is a major arts festival that takes place in Falls Park near downtown Greenville.

Reedy River Run a 10K race that is held in late February or early March.

An annual dance party called The Red Party is held at the History Museum of the Upcountry. The event serves as a fundraiser for AID Upstate, an AIDS Service Organization serving Upstate South Carolina.

The United States Race Cycling Championships are held annually in early September attracting professional cyclists from around the country vying to become the United States National Road Race Champion and Time Trial Champion.

Culture and cuisine are celebrated during Greenville’s Southern Exposure held in the fall. Highlights include celebrity-chef demonstrations, tasting events, select wine pairing and music by platinum selling musician Edwin McCain, among others.

Music in the Woods is annual festival held at the Paris Mountain State Park Amphitheater. (The only charge being a $2 park entrance fee) This festival, powered by the sun, features a different local artist every Saturday from 6pm until dusk running April through August.

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Places to see

Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery
BOB JONES UNIVERSITY MUSEUM & GALLERY
1700 Wade Hampton Blvd. - Greenville, South Carolina
(864) 770-1331
Greenville is home to Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery. Bob Jones, jr. was a connoisseur of European art who first concentrated on collecting Italian Baroque. Fifty years after the opening of the gallery, the BJU collection included more than 400 European paintings from the 14th to through the 19th centuries, period furniture, a notable collection of Russian icons and a hodgepodge of Holy Land antiquities collected in the early twentieth century by Frank and Barbara Bowen, missionaries and amateur archaeologists.

Frank Lloyd Wright
One of the last private homes designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright is located in Greenville just off Roper Mountain Road in the Pine Woods. It was created in the early 1950s upon the requests of two county librarians and is now privately owned. It is featured in a number of books onWright's Houses with generous color photographs. Inquiries about viewing the house are directed to the Chamber of Commerce.

Hans Einstein House
Also of note is the Hans Einstein House. Hans was the son of Albert Einstein, who was a frequent visitor to the house. The house is located just off Earle Street in Greenville’s Historic District. Hans taught at Furman University and both he and his father were often seen walking on the old downtown Furman Campus, which is now County Square. Albert served on the board of Black Mountain College and took side trips to Greenville when attending to his duties at Black Mountain, which is approximately 70 miles from Greenville.

Walter and Minnie Quinn Gassaway Mansion
Located just off East North Street in Greenville is the Walter and Minnie Quinn Gassaway Mansion. Walter was one of Greenville’s most successful bankers and mill owners in the 1920s. The mansion was completed just before the 1929 stock market crash. Mr. Gassaway died of a heart attack and the house was sold. Greenville County later bought it and made it the first home of the Greenville County Art Museum in the 1950's. After the museum moved to College Street, it was rented out to private citizens. In the late 1990’s, it was again on the market and the County sold it for $1,000,000 to a Jewish group who used it as a temple. The group sold it after a few years and it returned to private ownership. Visitors may see the outside of the home and contact the owners for a private tour.

Greenville County Museum of Art
Greenville County Museum of Art
420 College Street
Greenville, SC 29601
The Greenville County Museum of Art features major collections of work by Andrew Wyeth and Jasper Johns, as well as a Southern Collection that traces the history of American art using Southern-related examples.

Roper Mountain Science Center
402 Roper Mountain Road
Greenville, SC 29615
864 355-8900
The Roper Mountain Science Center is owned and run by the Greenville County School District. There are nature walks, a working farm and one of the world’s largest refractor telescopes.

Paris Mountain State Park
The Paris Mountain State Park is located just 7 miles from downtown Greenville. The park offers wilderness trails, camping, and paddleboats. Each year the park hosts the Music in the Woods Festival.

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Event Venues

Formerly known as the Palmetto Expo Center, the Carolina First Center is the largest convention center in South Carolina as well as being one of the largest on the East Coast. It has more than 315,000 square feet of exhibition space and 88,000 square feet of meeting and conference space. Many trade shows, conventions, and other events are held here each year.

The BI-LO Center is a 16,000-seat arena in downtown Greenville that hosts major concerts and sporting events.

The Peace Center is a performing arts center that hosts touring Broadway shows, symphonies, concerts, and civic events. Known internationally for its excellent acoustics, the Peace Center is also home to the Carolina Ballet Theatre, Greenville Symphony Orchestra, and Greenville Chorale.
The Warehouse Theatre is a black box theater operating since 1974, is located in the Historic West End.

The South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities is a state-funded residential high school for the Fine Arts and hosts many performances and exhibits put together by its student population.

Bob Jones University presents an opera during the spring semester and Shakespearean plays both fall and spring. A Sunday afternoon service called “Vespers,” presented occasionally throughout the school year in Rodeheaver Auditorium, combines music, speech, and drama and attracts numerous off-campus visitors because of its blending of the devotional and cultural. Rodeheaver Auditorium contains a 57-rank Zimmer pipe organ revoiced and digitally enhanced in 2004. Each Easter season, the University and the Museum and Gallery present the Living Gallery, a series of tableaux vivants recreating noted works of religious art using live models disguised as part of two-dimensional paintings.

Furman University presents organ recitals regularly at their chapel on a Fisk Organ and in the McAlister Auditorium is the Walter Holtkamp Organ. Furman also hosts concerts and other performances on campus in Timmons Arena. Meeting space is also available within Furman's Younts Conference Center.

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Shopping

Greenville is the main shopping destination of The Upstate region. Major shopping centers under construction include The Point (500,000 sq ft of retail space, 600,000 sq ft of office space and a 420 room hotel on 75 acres) and Magnolia Park Town Center, a proposed shopping center that will include a Costco, Haywood Mall is the largest mall in South Carolina, comprised of exclusive stores such as Aerosoles, The Body Shop, Helzberg Diamonds, Guess?, Godiva Chocolatier, and The Buckler. Downtown Greenville is home to many specialty shops and boutiques.

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Sports Teams

Greenville has hosted several minor league sports teams:

• The Greenville Drive is a minor league affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. The Drive started their first season in their new downtown ballpark on April 6, 2006.
• The Greenville Grrrowl was a minor league hockey team in the ECHL. The team officially ceased operations in July of 2006.
• The Greenville Braves was a minor league baseball team that played there from 1984 until 2004 when the team moved to Pearl, Mississippi for the 2005 season.
• The Greenville Groove was a minor league basketball team in the NBA D-League and ceased operations in 2003.
• The Greenville Griffins is a rugby union team that competes in USA Rugby South Division II.
• The Carolina Rhinos was an arena football team that began in 2000, and in 2002 left Greenville and became the Carolina Cobras.
  Furman University:
• The Furman Paladins of Furman University compete in NCAA Division I. Furman football is a member of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), formerly known as Division I-AA, and won the 1988 National Championship. Furman Paladins athletics compete on-campus in various venues, including Paladin Stadium, Timmons Arena, and the Eugene Stone Soccer Stadium. Furman is a member of the Southern Conference.

There are at least 4 stadiums for football and baseball within the city of Greenville and many outside with total capacities of 100,000. There are also a number of soccer fields and at least three municipal and many private community pools.
Yachting and boating are also popular in Greenville. Although the city itself is landlocked, nearby Lakes Jocassee, Keowee, Hartwell and others are located within 50 miles of Greenville.

The Olympic Torch has passed through Greenville several times, and the city is an active participant in the Special Olympics