J.C. Teasley House

National Register Listing

Street Address:

131 East Wine Street, Mullins, SC (Marion County)

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817734013

Description and Narrative:

The J. C. Teasley House was the home of James Chesley Teasley (1861-1942), a prominent Marion County businessman. Teasley played a pivotal role in the growth and development of the town of Mullins from a struggling late nineteenth railroad stop to an early twentieth century boomtown with a tobacco market serving the entire Pee Dee region of South Carolina. By 1938, Mullins’s tobacco market was the largest in the state. Teasley’s residence from 1901 until his death in 1942, the house is the extant historic resource most closely associated with his life and his role in the Pee Dee tobacco industry. The house has architectural integrity to just after 1901 and consists of a ca. 1875 house which faced westerly and a post-1901 southerly-oriented wing which when built became the principal façade of the house. This modest single-story frame house is constructed in a classic folk form quite common throughout the rural South. Listed in the National Register May 30, 2001. The J.C. Teasley House is no longer extant and was removed from the National Register August 9, 2016.

Period of Significance:

1894

Level of Significance:

Local

Area of Significance:

Commerce

National Register Determination:

removed from National Register

Date of Certification:

May 30 2001

Date of Removal from the Register:

August 9 2016

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