Turner, Robert G., House

National Register Listing

Street Address:

305 N. Main St., Greer, SC (Greenville County)

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817723052

Description and Narrative:

The Robert G. Turner House, built in 1935, is significant as an excellent example of a Colonial Revival residence of the period and as an important residential design by prominent Greenville architect William Riddle Ward (1890-1984). Ward, an Alabama native, was educated at Auburn University and came to South Carolina in 1916 to work for Greenville architect Haskell H. Martin; he left Martin’s firm in 1925 to go into independent architectural practice, and designed over one hundred residences in the state - including many in Greenville and Greenville County - by the time he retired in 1957. Ward was commissioned to design this house for Robert Gibbs Turner and his wife Mary after Mrs. Turner saw a Ward-designed house in Greenville and admired it. The house is divided into three distinct masses: a two-story, lateral gabled body, a single-height side-gabled porch, and a single-height side-gabled wing. The roof structure of all three, clad in composition shingles, features simple boxed cornices with ogee moulding. He also designed a one-story brick veneered garage for the Turners. Listed in the National Register February 1, 1999.

Period of Significance:

1935

Level of Significance:

Local

Area of Significance:

Architecture

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

February 1 1999

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