Timmerman Law Office

National Register Listing

Street Address:

207 E. Main St., Lexington, SC (Lexington County)

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817732054

Description and Narrative:

The Timmerman Law Office, which is believed to have been built ca. 1835, is a one-story, rectangular, frame cottage with a gable roof and shed rooms on the rear. The building has exterior end chimneys and is sheathed in weatherboard; the roof is covered with standing seam metal. A hip-roofed porch supported by square wood posts, which are connected by a plain balustrade, is attached to the façade. The porch shelters a central door flanked by windows. The office, at the time of nomination, was one of nine surviving antebellum residences in the town of Lexington. It was the best preserved and most original of four surviving cottages of similar form. Originally constructed as a residence, the building was associated with George Bell Timmerman, Sr. (1881-1966), who practiced law here from ca. 1912 until 1942. Timmerman was a former solicitor of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, state representative, chairman of the State Highway Commission, trustee of the University of South Carolina, and United States District Judge. Listed in the National Register November 22, 1983. The Timmerman Law Office has since been moved. Removed from the National Register December 8, 2005.

Period of Significance:

circa 1835

Level of Significance:

Local

Area of Significance:

Architecture

National Register Determination:

removed from National Register

Date of Certification:

November 22 1983

Date of Removal from the Register:

December 8 2005

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