Crossways

National Register Listing

Street Address:

450 E. Boundary St., Aiken, SC (Aiken County)

Alternate Name:

Henry Place

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NRHP Nomination Form

Record Number:

S10817702030

Description and Narrative:

(Henry Place) Crossways, built before 1860, is an excellent example of the architectural evolution of a residence from its beginnings as the main house on an antebellum Barnwell District plantation to its use as a late nineteenth and early twentieth-century winter residence, part of the Aiken Winter Colony. Little is known about the property before the Civil War, but James L. Derby, a New York publisher and partner in the Aiken Land Improvement Company purchased Crossways in 1868. Mr. Derby is partially responsible for the creation of the Winter Colony in Aiken. The residence is a two-story plantation house which exhibits elements of the Greek Revival and Victorian styles. The trees and brick entrance pillars still stand and the drive, now a street named Crossways Place, has bungalows on both sides. The original house was two stories with three twenty feet by twenty feet rooms each. All six rooms also featured fireplaces and hardwood floors. A one story addition was added to the south or back side between ca. 1865 and ca. 1900; soon after the turn of the twentieth century the addition was expanded to two stories and included a thirty-three foot long dining room with fireplace, a kitchen and service facilities. The entire exterior is horizontal weatherboard, with brick pier foundations and a crimped metal cross-gabled roof. Listed in the National Register June 4, 1997.

Period of Significance:

1868;1927;circa 1868 – 1927

Level of Significance:

Local

Area of Significance:

Architecture

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

June 4 1997

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