City Directories and History: This fantastic Folk Victorian, was constructed in ca. 1885 by E. Foggette and renovated in 1985. Known as New Hope Farmstead.
The main house at New Hope Farm was completed in 1885 from a design by an architect known as E. Foggette. His signed elevation drawings for this house remain in possession of the family and are displayed in the house today. Foggette is known to have practiced in nearby Spartanburg and Gaffney, as well as Asheville, North Carolina. He is also credited with designing the Sacred Heart Catholic Church which is a contributing property in the Abbeville (South Carolina) Historic District which was listed in the National Register in 1972. 1 The Snoddy family is also in possession of several documents of correspondence from 1884 between James Robert Snoddy and various builders and tradesmen who bid on and perhaps contributed to the construction of the house at New Hope Farm. New Hope Farm is an intact upcountry farmstead, despite modern encroachment from nearby highways. The residence is unique as an architect-designed farmhouse with numerous Victorian decorative elements. Few such houses from this era are extant in the upcountry of South Carolina and few are in such good condition. The Woodson Farmstead in Powdersville (Anderson County), built in 1892, is the only other upcountry South Carolina Victorian farmhouse to be listed in the National Register (1998).
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