“Designed with a steep gambrel roof and inside end chimneys, its brick laid in Flemish bond. The house is locate in the Tyger River Area, first section settled in Spartanburg County.”
1200 Oak View Farm Road
City Directories and History: Price’s Post Office is the only example of its style in the South Carolina Piedmont, its gambrel roof profile being much more characteristic of the Central Atlantic states and parts of northern Virginia. The Georgian house dates from the late years of the eighteenth century
Images(s) and information from: The Library of Congress – HABS Photo Collection
Courtesy of the SC Dept. of Archives and History
or the first decade of the nineteenth century, and is an important symbol of the South Carolina frontier. It was built by Thomas Price, large landowner and entrepreneur who moved to the Spartanburg District in 1793 and operated a store and post office a few yards away from his house as part of a mercantile-postal-agrarian complex. The house is designed with a Dutch gambrel roof, the lower slope of which is unusually steep. Its construction is of Flemish bond brick with glazed headers and interior chimneys. The interior arrangement provided the ‘single house’ effect that had become popular in the low-country, houses of one-room thickness to improve air circulation during summer heat. The interior is wood-paneled, both walls and ceilings, with elegant moldings in its eight rooms. Connected to the back of the house is a two-room kitchen with an open ceiling and beaded beams. Listed in the National Register October 28, 1969. (Courtesy of South Carolina Department of Archives and History)
Thomas Price owned two thousand acres and twenty-eight slaves, ran a post office, operated a general store, and offered lodgings for stagecoach travelers. He did all this in and around one of the most unusual houses in Spartanburg County. This house, built in 1795, is exceptional because of its steep gambrel roof, its inside end chimneys, and its totally brick structure. The bricks were all made on the premises and laid in elegant Flemish bond.
Pictorial History of Spartanburg County by Philip N. Racine – 1980
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