City Directories and History: New Hope Farm is significant because its architecture and landscape convey an excellent example of a nineteenth century upcountry South Carolina farmstead. The centerpiece of the farm is an 1885 Folk Victorian residence. 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 and few are in such good condition. The house was completed from a design by an architect known as E. Foggette. His signed elevation drawings for this house remain in possession of the family. It is a one-story farmhouse with intersecting gables, a steeply-pitched pressed metal-shingled roof, weatherboard siding, and a wraparound hip-roofed porch.
Sloan – Epton’s Spartanburg Co Map ca. 1869. Courtesy of the Cobb Collection – Other Side of the River Museum, 2016
Surrounding the house on the adjoining 25 acres is a complex of domestic and agricultural outbuildings documenting activity on the farm ca. 1885-1905, including a small two-story frame servant’s house, a smokehouse, a privy, a corn crib, a buggy barn and a garage. New Hope Farm is also significant for its association with seven generations of the Snoddy family, prominent in the Wellford community. Listed in the National Register May 20, 1999.
View the complete text of the nomination form for this National Register property.(Courtesy of South Carolina Department of Archives and History)
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