New Market (Greeleyville, South Carolina)

New Market
LocationSouth Carolina Highway 375, approximately 5 miles south of Greeleyville, near Greeleyville, South Carolina
Coordinates33°32′21″N 79°59′23″W / 33.53917°N 79.98972°W / 33.53917; -79.98972
Area88.6 acres (35.9 ha)
Builtc. 1820 (1820)
Architectural styleextended Double Pen
NRHP reference No.98000290[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 26, 1998

New Market, also known as the McDonald-Rhodus-Lesesne House, is a historic home and national historic district located near Greeleyville, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It encompasses 2 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites. The house was built about 1820, and a one-story, frame extended Double Pen house over a raised brick basement. It features a typical "rain porch" on the front of the house supported by four tapered and chamfered wooden posts. Also on the property are a 1 1/2-story frame tobacco pack house (c. 1916), the foundation of a greenhouse, and a pecan avenue and grove (c. 1920).[2][3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Katherine Hurt Richardson (July 1996). "Clarkson Farm Complex" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
  3. ^ "New Market, Williamsburg County (S.C. Hwy. 375, Greeleyville vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved July 1, 2014.