Ballentine-Shealy House

National Register Listing

Street Address:

SR 1323, Lexington, SC (Lexington County)

Alternate Name:

Ballentine-Shealy-Slocum House

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817732037

Description and Narrative:

The Ballentine-Shealy House is a significant example of a second generation pioneer residence. It is a one-and-one half-story, log building sheathed in weatherboard with a gable roof of standing seam metal. It appears to have been constructed in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century by William Ballentine. Ballentine’s granddaughter married Daniel Shealy and moved into the house sometime after 1850. From 1905 until the mid-1950s the house was the site of Shealy family reunions, sometimes attracting crowds of 2,500 people. The basically rectangular house has shed rooms on the rear and a one-story shed-roofed front porch with an enclosed room on the right. An original Suffolk latch and wrought strap hinges adorn the shed room’s board and batten door. The house has a hall-and-parlor plan and an enclosed stair. An open breezeway connects the house to the ca. 1870 kitchen, which has a fieldstone and brick chimney and a side porch. Remaining outbuildings include a dilapidated dairy, a small log barn, and a well house. Listed in the National Register November 22, 1983.

Period of Significance:

circa 1793 – 1820

Level of Significance:

Local

Area of Significance:

Architecture

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

November 22 1983

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