Marsh-Johnson House

National Register Listing

Street Address:

Intersection of S-41-21 and S-41-37, Saluda, SC city vicinity (Saluda County)

Alternate Name:

Robert Johnson House

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817741003

Description and Narrative:

The Marsh-Johnson House (Robert Johnson House) is a two-story farmhouse of log construction sheathed in weatherboard. The house is believed to have been built before 1817. The Marsh-Johnson House embodies construction technology and design characteristics of the rural South Carolina upcountry of the early nineteenth century. It is one of the earliest and intact log residences that has been identified in the state. The house rests on massive brick piers, which are laid in Flemish bond. A one-story, shed-roofed porch with wooden foundation piers and four rough hewn tree trunks supporting the roof spans the façade. Many of the windows retain their batten shutters. The central hall farmhouse was common in South Carolina from the colonial settlements until the early twentieth century. Log buildings in South Carolina were common into the mid-nineteenth century, especially in areas where there were substantial stands of large timber. Flemish bond brickwork and glazed headers, found here in the double-shouldered chimney, were in use in South Carolina from the eighteenth century into the early years of the nineteenth century. Listed in the National Register June 17, 1982.

Period of Significance:

1817

Level of Significance:

State

Area of Significance:

Architecture

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

June 17 1982

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