Orange Grove

National Register Listing

Street Address:

Jct. of SC 43 (Black River Rd.) and SC 441, Dalzell, SC (Sumter County)

Alternate Name:

Gaillard-Colclough House

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817743015

Description and Narrative:

(Gaillard-Colclough House) Orange Grove, originally built in 1851, is significant as an excellent example of the historic adaptation of residential design resulting from a natural disaster that occurred in 1924. In April of that year, a tornado tore off Orange Grove’s roof, gabled half story, and most of the second story. In response to the storm’s disastrous results, the house’s owners salvaged all that remained and reconfigured the roof over a half story in a style consistent with early twentieth building practices. Whereas prior to 1924 the house was of a vernacular style common to the eastern and lower parts of South Carolina, Orange Grove after the tornado took on the form and appearance of a raised cottage with a Prairie or Craftsman type roof. The principal block is a one-and-one-half-story, braced frame and weatherboard house set upon a one-story brick raised basement enclosure which has been stuccoed and scored. The site of Orange Grove also includes an elongated, one-story frame servant’s house to the north of the main house. The property is also significant for its association with the Gaillard family, prominent among those deriving from early French Huguenot settlers of lowcountry South Carolina, and the Colclough family, relatives of the Gaillards and the property’s owners from 1902-1953. Listed in the National Register August 19, 1993.

Period of Significance:

1924;1851

Level of Significance:

Local

Area of Significance:

Architecture

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

August 19 1993

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