Clarkson Farm Complex

National Register Listing

Street Address:

US 52, 1.5 mi. S of jct. with US 521, Greeleyville, SC (Williamsburg County)

Alternate Name:

William Nicoll Clarkson House

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817745001

Description and Narrative:

(William Nicoll Clarkson House) The Clarkson Farm Complex includes a main house, store, smokehouse, garage, stable/garage, tenant house, pumphouse, wellhouse and pecan grove, dating from ca. 1896 to ca. 1928. Constructed by William Nicoll Clarkson (1871-1956), this collection of resources is significant as an intact late nineteenth/early twentieth century agricultural/commercial complex. Additionally, the main house, built ca. 1905, is a significant example of an elaborated and expanded I-house, a house type found throughout South Carolina, but most commonly in the Piedmont. The two-story frame building rests on a brick pier foundation and has a standing seam metal roof. A rear ell with an intersecting gable roof extends from the main block of the house, creating a L-shaped plan. Adjoining the ell at the rear is the original ca. 1896 one-story house. The Clarkson Store, built ca. 1896, and moved across the highway in 1928, is representative of a disappearing resource, and is significant as one of few surviving rural commercial buildings of its period in the Pee Dee region. A contributing pecan grove, planted in 1922, is to the south of the house. Listed in the National Register October 6, 1988.

Period of Significance:

1905;circa 1896;1928

Level of Significance:

Local

Area of Significance:

Agriculture;Commerce;Architecture

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

October 6 1988

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