Chappell House
National Register Listing
Street Address:
Address Restricted (Richland County)
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817740075
Description and Narrative:
The Chappell House, which is believed to have been constructed ca. 1830, is a significant example of the vernacular farmhouses that defined much of the state’s rural landscape in the nineteenth century. The late Federal style building has a quarried stone foundation, weatherboard sheathing, and a shingled gable roof. It has a central-hall, single-pile plan, a house type (“I-House”) ubiquitous for the period and region. The house is remarkably intact. The construction technology evident in the house is a valuable source on the tools and techniques available in the era. The careful craftsmanship evident in the foundations, the fanlights, and the interior woodwork indicates a builder of considerable skill and a client of some means, while the pedimented porch suggests a degree of sophistication or stylistic awareness. The rear of the building originally had a one-story shed-roofed porch and a nearby detached kitchen building. Around the turn of the twentieth century, the porch was enclosed and the kitchen building connected to the house by infill construction. Although the builder and original owner is unknown, the property has been in the Chappell family since 1880. The property includes four outbuildings: a frame barn, two frame sheds, and a dilapidated frame chicken house. Listed in the National Register March 27, 1986.
Period of Significance:
circa 1830
Level of Significance:
Local
Area of Significance:
Architecture
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
March 27 1986