Pettigrew House

Historic Property

Alternate Name:

Unknown

Street Address:

130 J L P Farm Rd.;(Anderson County)

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Site Number:

0555

Control Number:

U/07/0555

Date Surveyed:

April 3 2002

Category:

Building

Construction Date:

1796

Alteration Date:

1902

Historic Use:

Residential/Domestic

Current Use:

Residential/Domestic

National Register Determination:

not eligible

Signficant Architectural Features:

The two story, rectangular, frame I-house has a side gable roof, a façade porch with a shed roof, one end chimney, and is covered in synthetic siding. The house has six over six windows, the main entry is flanked by three-part sidelights, and the porch supports are Ionic columns and turned balustrades. There are several associated outbuildings including one and two-story barns, and a slave residence, fruit house, smoke house.

Historical Information:

0549 is a tenant house associated with this property. Property owned by the Gentry family since ca. 1790 when the Zaccariah Gentry received a land grant. His daughter married James Lawrence Pettigrew; they built the current structure as a log structure that is still in the rear ell. According to the owner, the cabin was converted to the I-house form in 1902, and vinyl siding was added ca. 1980.

Source of Historical Information:

Gentry family member, current owner.

Quadrangle Name:

Anderson South

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