City Directories and History: The Bob Lemmon House is significant as a virtually intact example of an
antebellum vernacular farmhouse with classical Federal elements which reflect the builder’s awareness of popular stylistic detailing. A Fairfield Sketchbook states that the Bob Lemmon House was probably built before the Civil War by the Owen family and was later known as the Copeland Place. According to the
Sketchbook John Montgomery Lemmon, a wealthy planter, bought the house for his son, Robert Young Lemmon, in 1870. The likely ca. 1850 house is a two-story, weather boarded frame I-House, gable-roofed residence with a single pile, central hall plan with rear shed room additions. The façade features a two-tiered pedimented portico with four wooden Tuscan columns and a plain balustrade on each level. A fanlight is centered in the pediment. A central entrance with sidelights and transom is flanked by two nine-over-nine windows. There is a third exterior chimney on the right rear shed room. The property also includes a ca. 1910 shed and a ca. 1890 barn, both of frame construction sheathed in weatherboard. Listed in the National Register December 6, 1984. [Courtesy of the SC Dept. of Archives and History]
One of three remaining Lemmon homes in Fairfield County. Built on land formerly owned by the Owens, early settlers of the county, this house is commonly known as the Bob Lemmon Place. It was bought by his father R.Y. Lemmon in 1870 from the Owens heirs and given to “Redhead Bob Lemmon” as a wedding gift when he married his wife Agnes Milling Lemmon. “Redhead Bob Lemmon” served Fairfield in the state legislature a number of years.
Bought from his heirs in the mid 1950′s by Winnsboro antique collectors Mr. and Mrs. A. Gordon Quattlebaum to house their collections and give them a weekend home. After their deaths, the place was sold to Mr. and Mrs. Tim Lord, current owners (2013.)
Informative link: “I” House Architecture
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