Lexington is the largest town in and the county seat of Lexington County, South Carolina, United States. It is a suburb of the state capital, Columbia. The population was 23,568 at the 2020 Census, and it is the second-largest municipality in the greater Columbia area. The 2021 estimated population is 24,208. According to the Central Midlands Council of Governments, the greater Lexington area had an estimated population of 111,549 in 2020 and is considered the fastest-growing area in the Midlands. Lexington's town limits are bordered to the east by the city of West Columbia.
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (LTSS) is a theological seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and located in Columbia, South Carolina. It offers theological degrees. In 2012, it merged with Lenoir-Rhyne University, also affiliated with the ELCA. Although Lenoir-Rhyne is based in Hickory, North Carolina, LTSS operates as a satellite campus in Columbia.
The Lexington County Museum is made up of 36 historic houses and outbuildings. It showcases the Colonial and Antebellum period of Lexington County history, with a particular focus on the Swiss and German heritage of Lexington. It is located in the Historic District of Lexington, South Carolina and has a large collection of locally-made artifacts, including quilts, furniture, and pottery. A department of Lexington County government, the Museum was created in 1970.
The Ernest L. Blumenschein House is a historic house museum and art gallery at 222 Ledoux Street in Taos, New Mexico. It was a home of painter Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874-1960), a co-founder of the Taos Society of Artists and one of the "Taos Six". It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lexington County, South Carolina.
James Stewart House, also known as Stewart's Corner, is a historic home formerly located in Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1850, and is a 1 1/2-half story, rectangular, frame cottage with a gable roof and two interior chimneys. It features a porch with a high gable supported by square wood posts. To avoid demolition, the house was moved about 1991 from its original location on West Main Street in Lexington to its current site in the vicinity of Red Bank, South Carolina.
Hartley House, also known as the Bond-Bates-Hartley House, is a historic home located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built before 1800, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, weatherboard dwelling with a two-story portico adapted from the Greek Revival. It has a closed brick foundation and a gable roof. The portico is supported by two square wooden pillars set outside a pair of smaller pillars. According to local tradition, the house served as a stagecoach stop and post office prior to the founding of Batesburg.
A. C. Jones House is a historic home located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1904, and is a California bungalow form influenced weatherboard residence. The hipped roof has three large, hipped dormers. The dormers, roof, and projecting wraparound porch have exposed rafters. The house and porch sit on a granite foundation.
Mitchell-Shealy House, also known as the Berley Shealy House, is a historic home located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1855, and is a two-story weatherboard residence that combines Greek Revival and Italianate features. It consists of a rectangular central block and one-story, centered rear ell. It features a central projecting double portico beneath a front gable.
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+1⁄2-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, 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.
W. Q. M. Berly House is a historic home located at Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1904, and is a one-story, frame cottage with a gable roof and irregular plan. It features a cross gable with sawn bargeboard, and a hip-roofed wraparound porch.
William Berly House is a historic home located at Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built by 1832, and is a two-story, clapboard dwelling. It features a one-story porch supported by four square columns. The house originally was in the dogtrot form. It has a one-story wing attached to the main house by an enclosed breezeways around 1900. Also on the property is a contributing former ice house. It was the home of Reverend William Berly, a leading religious and educational figure in area Lutheranism during the mid-19th century.
Lemuel Boozer House, also known as the Boozer-Harmon House, is a historic home located in the town of Lexington in Lexington County, South Carolina. The home belonged to lawyer, politician, and judge Lemuel Boozer (1809-1870). It was built about 1828–1830 and is a one-story clapboard dwelling on a raised basement. It has a low-pitch gable roof and a tall basement of brick piers. A rear ell and wing were added in the 1840s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It is one of the oldest structures in the town of Lexington.
Fox House is a historic home located at Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina, USA. It was built circa 1832, and is a two-story frame dwelling with an 11-foot deep porch across the front façade. The house is attached by breezeways to two dependencies, which are currently interpreted as a kitchen and the quarters for enslaved workers. These dependencies were originally both slave quarters that were not attached to the main house. The house was probably constructed for Jesse Bates but was purchased in 1843 by John Fox who was the county sheriff, clerk of court and a state senator. It became a part of the Lexington County Museum in 1970.
C. E. Corley House is a historic home located near Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1895, and is a Queen Anne style dwelling consisting of a two-story, "L"-shaped main block with a single story rear ell. It has a gable roof and weatherboard siding. It features a one-story porch in the turn of the “L” with a gabled and pedimented projecting porch entry. The porch has an attached gazebo under a conical roof. The house also has a semicircular bay. Also on the property is a smokehouse, woodshed, and tenant house.
John Solomon Hendrix House, also known as the Sol Hendrix House, is a historic home located near Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1850, and is a two-story, rectangular, weatherboarded frame farmhouse. It has a gable roof and exterior end chimneys. The front façade features a double tiered porch supported by square wood posts.
David Rawl House is a historic home located at Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1854, and is a rectangular, one-story, frame cottage with board-and-batten siding. It has a gable roof and a rear ell. It is one of nine surviving antebellum houses in Lexington.
Simmons-Harth House, also known as the Simmons-Harth-Gantt House, is a historic home located at Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1830, and is a two-story, rectangular, later Federal style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof and is sheathed in weatherboard. The front façade features a double-tiered, pedimented portico with slender wooden columns. It is one of nine surviving antebellum houses in Lexington.
Maj. Henry A. Meetze House is a historic home located near Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1855, and consists of a two-story, rectangular main block, with one-story side wings and a rear ell. The vernacular Italianate dwelling features a hipped roof with bracketed eaves, one and two-story porticoes with cast iron decoration, and bay windows. Also on the property is the original wellhouse and several sheds. Henry Meetze (1820-1904) was a prominent attorney, businessman and civic leader in the Lexington area.
Home National Bank is a historic bank building located near Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1912, and is a two-story brick building. Its corner entrance features a pediment supported by engaged Doric order columns. It is one of five commercial buildings that survived the 1916 fire. The building housed the town's post office from 1912 until the 1960s.
