S.S. Rogers House ("The Oaks")

Historic Property

Alternate Name:

Benjamin Rogers House

Street Address:

278 The Oaks Lane

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Site Number:

797.00

Control Number:

U/69/797.00

Date Surveyed:

September 20 2006

Category:

Building

Construction Date:

1825

Alteration Date:

1912 – 1958

Historic Use:

Residential/Domestic

Current Use:

Residential/Domestic

Historic Core Shape:

Rectangular

Architect or Builder:

unknown

Number of Stories:

2

Construction Method:

frame

Exterior Walls Materials:

Weatherboard

Foundation Materials:

Brick

Roof Shape:

hip

Roof Materials:

composition shingle

Porch Width:

full façade

Porch Shape:

flat

National Register Determination:

not eligible

Signficant Architectural Features:

two-story, frame house, symmetrical façade, central doors on each floor with sidelights and transom windows, brick chimneys on slope, square classical columns, one-story side projection

Alterations:

second story addition (1912), further renovations (1958)

Historical Information:

The S.S. Rogers House is located in Brownsville. Originally, a small one-story house was built on the property in 1825. After several additions, a second story was added around 1912. Further renovations took place in 1958. In 1819, Colonel Benjamin Rogers brought the Frenchman, Peter Stuart Ney to start a school near the house. Later Rogers learned that Peter Ney was actually Marshal Michel Ney, the great French general who was supposedly executed by firing squad in Paris in 1815.

Source of Historical Information:

Marlboro County, South Carolina: A Pictoral History, 1951.

Quadrangle Name:

Drake

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