Willcox's, Historic building in South Carolina, US

Willcox's is a former inn at Chesterfield Street and Colleton Avenue in Aiken, South Carolina, built in Second Empire and Colonial Revival styles. Its irregular plan has a central block with asymmetrical wings; the west wing was expanded and renovated in 1928, giving the building its current appearance. It is the only one of Aiken's resort hostelries still standing.

Frederick Willcox, his wife Elise and their sons came from England to Aiken in 1891 and ran a catering business from their home. After the first Highland Park Hotel burned in 1898, Louise Hitchcock urged the family to open a small hotel, which welcomed its first guests in 1900. It grew in 1906 and again in 1928, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 19, 1982.

Elise Willcox's cooking drew Aiken's Winter Colony families to the family's catering business, and Louise Hitchcock then persuaded the Willcoxes to open a small hotel, which welcomed its first guests in 1900. Its guest register later ran from the Churchills and Count and Countess Bernadotte of Sweden, who honeymooned there, to Elizabeth Arden and Bing Crosby.

The Willcox operates as a hotel in Aiken, South Carolina, with rooms, a restaurant, a bar and a spa, and it also boards horses and rents nearby houses. It reopened in 2002 and changed ownership in 2009. Guests can book packages that include horseback riding, golf, polo and trap and skeet shooting.

Of Aiken's once-famous resort hostelries, only Willcox's still stands. The 1906 expansion absorbed an adjacent two-story house at Colleton Avenue and Newberry Street, and the 1928 renovation of the west wing gave the building its present irregular plan: a central block with asymmetrical wings.