Barr, D. D. D., House

National Register Listing

Street Address:

Off SC 245, Batesburg, SC (Lexington County)

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NRHP Nomination Form

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Record Number:

S10817732043

Description and Narrative:

The D.D.D. Barr House is a ca. 1883 one-story, frame, weatherboarded dwelling, which extends a ca. 1859 rear ell built by James Michael Barr. The ca. 1883 main core of the house has a hip roof covered with metal shingles. A hip-roofed porch with square wood posts and pilasters and a plain balustrade shelters three bays of the five-bay façade. The bays consist of two nine-over-nine windows flanking a central entrance with transom and sidelights. Triangular window caps surmount door and windows on all elevations. All of the rooms on the interior except for the central hall have been substantially altered. Outbuildings include a twentieth century milk house. A restrained Greek Revival and Victorian era farmhouse, the D.D.D. Barr House illustrates the austerity of postbellum domestic and farm architecture in Lexington County by a family prominent in the Batesburg area. The farm was entered in 1978 as a Century Farm in being in continuous agricultural operation by the same family for 100 years or more by the Pendleton Historic and Recreational Commission. Listed in the National Register November 22, 1983.

Period of Significance:

circa 1883

Level of Significance:

Local

Area of Significance:

Architecture

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

1983-11-22

Date of Boundary Increase:

No Boundary Increase

County:

Lexington County;Batesburg

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