City Directories and History: The James L. Coker, III, House is significant as an excellent example of Colonial Revival residential architecture in South Carolina; as one of the designs of Willis Irvin, a prominent regional architect of the early twentieth century; and for its association with James Lide Coker, III (1904-1961), prominent Hartsville manufacturer and president of Sonoco Products Company. The house was built in 1931, soon after Coker succeeded to the presidency of
Sonoco at the death of his father, Charles W. Coker. The two-story residence has a rectangular plan core and a three bay symmetrical façade. It has a lateral gable slate roof and an engaged portico with four slender Tuscan columns and sunburst motif in the frieze. Flush, two-story, lateral gable wings are flanked by one-story end gable wings. The central entry has a traceried fanlight and sidelights set within a simple brick opening. The façade is accented with a simple brick dentil course and pilasters. A one-story sun room has been added to the left elevation. The whitewashed, distressed, brick veneer cladding contributes to the Colonial Revival character of the residence. The garden façade features a central entry with traceried sidelights and transom set within an elaborate segmental arch surround and a cornice with triglyphs and guttae in the frieze. A one-story, frame, double-pen “cabin” is associated with the house. Listed in the National Register May 3, 1991. [Courtesy of the SC Dept. of Archives and History]
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