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Elloree, South Carolina: Big Blue Teapot

Large blue teakettle-shaped building once held 5,000+ teapots collected by Sybil and Julian Boland. The Tea-rific Teapot Museum inside the building closed in 2020, but the teapot is still there.

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Teapot Museum in Big Teapot

A 20-foot-long blue teapot houses the teapot collection of Julian and Sybil Boland, who run a pharmacy in the adjacent building. Officially named J's Tea-rific Teapot Museum, it opened in June 2012. The Boland collection reportedly numbers in the tens of thousands. One display in the museum resembles Noah's Ark, designed to hold Bible- and animal-themed teapots.

[RoadsideAmerica.com Team, 06/12/2012]

Big Blue Teapot

Address:
2732 W. Cleveland St., Elloree, SC
Directions:
Downtown. The teapot is behind the buildings on W. Cleveland St. To see the pot, drive north one block, then turn onto W. Hampton St. The pot is just east of Railroad Ave.
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