McClellanville Historic District
National Register Listing
Street Address:
Pinckney, Lofton, Charlotte, Church, Water, Oak, Venning, Legare, Morrison, and Scotia Sts., McClellanville, SC (Charleston County)
NRHP Nomination
Additional Documentation
Additional Documentation
Record Number:
S10817710116
Description and Narrative:
The McClellanville Historic District contains a collection of approximately 105 residential, commercial, religious and educational properties dating from ca. 1860 to ca. 1935. This collection is architecturally significant as an illustration of the founding of a pineland resort village and its development into a small but stable year-round commercial fishing village. McClellanville begin in the late 1850s as a summer retreat for St. James Santee and Georgetown planters. The prevailing vernacular forms, especially the central hall farmhouse, predominated in early McClellanville architecture, although the more fashionable architectural styles began to receive attention and can be seen throughout the town: Carpenter Gothic, Queen Anne, and Italianate with a rare Colonial Revival example. The commercial strip developed in the early 20th century and are of frame construction built directly on the road. The historic district is visually unified by the nearly ubiquitous wooden frame construction, by the consistent scale of the house, lots, and their relation to the banks of the creek, by the tremendous live oak trees that permeate the town, and by the relative absence of contemporary commercial intrusions. Listed in the National Register March 23, 1982. Additional Documentation approved June 20, 2024, to correct the construction date of the resource at 522 Pinckney Street and change its status to contributing.
Period of Significance:
circa 1860 – 1935;1925
Level of Significance:
Local
Area of Significance:
Architecture
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
March 23 1982
