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This bungalow style building represents the adaptation of this style to the needs of the sea islands. The commandant's quarters at the U.S. Naval Station on Parris Island, it was photographed by...
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This four-square bungalow type house, built in the suburbs of Columbia as it began to expand beyond its boundaries into the surrounding countryside in the early 20th century, is probably one of...
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Mill housing in South Carolina exhibited a variety of styles, but the most widely used was a copy of the salt-box construction of New England mill villages, where the steeply pitched roof helped keep...
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These houses were constructed by the Winnsboro Mill, now a part of the Uniroyal facility in Fairfield County, around 1929. The mill owners provided housing as a way to attract workers or operatives to...
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This house, originally built in the Greek Revival style in Camden, perhaps as early as 1850 judging from the cornices, was later heavily ornamented with Queen Anne cutwork and balustrades on the porch...
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This Queen Anne style house was built in Georgetown at the east corner of Front Street and James Street by Dr. H.A. Farris, a dentist. Its four octagonal rooms on each floor all had five windows and a...
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Pebble Lodge in Aiken, home of Miss Elizabeth League, was photographed around 1900. The Queen Anne style of this house was popular around 1880-1910. Courtesy of the Aiken County Historical Museum.
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The Lanneau House in Norwood. The central tower, elaborate cornice with brackets, and Italianate windows help identify this as an Empire style home, popular from 1855-1885. Courtesy of George...
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The Cornwallis House in Camden was the headquarters of Cornwallis for the winter the British troops remained there during the Revolutionary War in an attempt to pacify the South Carolina backcountry....
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Work began in 1852 on the magnificent Classical Revival auditorium and chapel building on the campus of South Carolina College, originally called College Hall, but now known as the Longstreet Theater...
