Fountain Fox Beattie House

Historic Property

Alternate Name:

Greenville Woman's Club

Street Address:

N Church St

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Site Number:

0020

Control Number:

U/45/0020

Date Surveyed:

February 26 2003

Category:

Building

Construction Date:

circa 1834

Alteration Date:

circa 1940

Historic Use:

Residential/Domestic

Current Use:

Social

Historic Core Shape:

Rectangular

Number of Stories:

2

Construction Method:

frame

Exterior Walls Materials:

Weatherboard

Foundation Materials:

Brick

Roof Shape:

hip

Roof Materials:

raised seam metal

Porch Width:

facade

Porch Shape:

flat

National Register Determination:

listed

Signficant Architectural Features:

2-story, frame Italianate house; weatherboards; brick foundation; hip roof w/center cross gable; bracketed cornice; brick end chimneys; attached 1-story flat-roof porch on paired square posts alternating large and small arched openings; double-leaf entrance w/paneled surround, denticulated entablature, and transom; entry flanked by 12/12 windows w/sidelights and entablatures; 2nd floor windows are 1/1 w/paired center window under broken pediment; 1-story flat-roof side wings topped by balustrade and 6/6 windows

Alterations:

enlarged multiple times; moved to present location (ca. 1940)

Historical Information:

Georgian-style house built for Fountain Fox Beattie and his wife, Emily Edgeworth, begun ca. 1834. House was enlarged numerous times to accommodate the growing Beattie family and updated in Italianate style during mid-19th c. Occupied by Beattie descendents until 1940, it was moved to its present location as the home of the Greenville Woman's Club.

Source of Historical Information:

NR nomination

Quadrangle Name:

Greenville

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