Ballentine-Shealy House

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Ballentine-Shealy House
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Ballentine-Shealy House, August 2012
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LocationSouth Carolina Highway 1323, near Lexington, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°6′17″N81°22′55″W / 34.10472°N 81.38194°W / 34.10472; -81.38194 Coordinates: 34°6′17″N81°22′55″W / 34.10472°N 81.38194°W / 34.10472; -81.38194
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
MPS Lexington County MRA
NRHP reference No. 83003858 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 22, 1983

Ballentine-Shealy House, also known as the Ballentine-Shealy-Slocum House, is a historic home located near Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in the late-18th or early-19th century, and is a 1+12-story, rectangular log building. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has a standing seam metal gable roof. It has shed rooms on the rear and a one-story shed-roofed front porch with an enclosed room. The house has a hall-and-parlor plan and an enclosed stair. An open breezeway connects the house to the kitchen (ca. 1870), which has a fieldstone and brick chimney and a side porch. Also on the property a dilapidated dairy, a small log barn, and a well house. [2] [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. unknown (n.d.). "Ballentine-Shealy House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  3. "Ballentine-Shealy House, Lexington County (S.C. Sec. Rd. 1323, Lexington vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 18, 2014.