J.C. Richardson House

National Register Listing

Street Address:

67 Gillison Branch Rd., Robertville, SC (Jasper County)

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817727009

Description and Narrative:

The J.C. Richardson House, built circa 1880, is architecturally significant as an example of a two-story, center hall, Folk Victorian home in rural upper Jasper County, replete with Queen Anne influences, cutaway bay windows, a Chinese Chippendale balustrade on both its first and second floor porches, an ornate central hallway with its two-tiered, side-set staircase, and numerous rooms with tongue-and-groove wood ceilings, horizontal tongue-and-groove wood paneling, and decorative mantelpieces, all of which are original to the house or were added during its period of significance. The house also includes a standing-seam metal roof, two interior chimney stacks that vent four sets of double hearths inside, and a two-tiered, side-set staircase off its central hallway. Two contributing accessory buildings/structures, a former smokehouse and a brick trough, are also on site. Other than some modest changes to the rear of the home that brought the originally detached kitchen into the house and expanded the living space onto an original porch and into the space above this porch, as well as a possible pre-1930 alteration of the western front gable to its present cutaway bay configuration, the J. C. Richardson House remains mostly unchanged in both its original configuration and materials. Listed in the National Register September 22, 2014.

Period of Significance:

circa 1880 – 1931

Level of Significance:

Local

Area of Significance:

Architecture

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

September 22 2014

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