Laurens is a city in Laurens County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 9,139 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Laurens County.
The Octagon House, also known as Zelotes Holmes House, is a historic octagonal house located in Laurens, South Carolina. Designed and built in 1859 to 1862 by the Rev. Zelotes Lee Holmes, a Presbyterian minister and teacher, it is thought to be the first concrete house erected in South Carolina. It was called the Zelotes Holmes House by the Historic American Buildings Survey.
Laurens Historic District is a national historic district located at Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It encompasses 77 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in Laurens. The district includes residential, commercial, religious, and governmental buildings built between 1880 and 1940. Notable buildings include the Laurens County Courthouse, Old Methodist Church, St. Paul First Baptist Church, Public Square commercial buildings, Rosenblum's and Maxwell Bros. and Kinard Store, Provident Finance Co. and Parker Furniture, McDonald House, Augustus Huff House, Gov. William Dunlap Simpson House, and Hudgens-Harney House.
Gray Court-Owings School is a historic school building located at Gray Court, Laurens County, South Carolina. The building consists of a two-story central brick building constructed in 1914, with a flanking one-story brick-veneered high school building and a one-story brick-veneered auditorium, both built in 1928. The flanking buildings are designed in the Colonial Revival style with Tuscan order porticos. A two-story Tuscan order portico was added to the entrance of the 1914 building in 1928. A contributing one-story frame potato house was built in the 1930s to help local farmers preserve their crops.
Charlton Hall Plantation House is a historic plantation house located near Hickory Tavern, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was built about 1847, and is a two-story, three bay brick residence in the Greek Revival style. It has a low hipped roof. Also on the property are a contributing blacksmith shop/shed, a smokehouse, and a frame shed. It was the home of George Washington Sullivan, Sr., (1809–1887), a prominent farmer and public servant of Laurens District before, during, and after the American Civil War.
Sullivan House, also known as Tumbling Shoals, is a historic home located near Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was built about 1838, and is a two-story, frame I-house dwelling, two rooms in length, and one room deep, with a side-gabled roof. The house typifies the first post-pioneer permanent settlement in the lower Carolina Piedmont.
William Dunlap Simpson House is a historic home located at Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina, USA. It was built about 1839 for a planter to use as his town house. The three-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style clapboard dwelling has a total of twelve rooms.
Nickels-Milam House is a historic plantation house located near Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was built about 1828, and is a three-story, five-bay, Greek Revival style frame dwelling. The interior has original moldings, paneled doors, mantels, wide-board flooring and much of the original hardware. Also on the property are several barns and the family cemetery.
John Calvin Owings House is a historic home located at Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was designed by architect George Franklin Barber and built in 1896. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It features high multiple roofs, turrets, oriels, cresting, turned spindles, and porches. The projecting front gable includes a decorated second-story portico. Also on the property are four contributing outbuildings.
Albright-Dukes House, also known as the Dukes House, is a historic home located at Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was built about 1904, and is a two-story, Dutch Colonial Revival style frame dwelling. It features a cross-gambrel roof and the shingled gambrel ends with Palladian windows. It has a single-story porch, supported by Tuscan order columns.
Lyde Irby Darlington House, also known as the Monroe House, is a historic home located at Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was built about 1899, and is a two-story, eclectic frame dwelling with elements of the Queen Anne, Eastlake, and Classical Revival styles. Notable features include polygonal bays and a wraparound porch.
Sitgreaves House, also known as the Crowe House, is a historic home located at Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was built about 1907, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, story, frame residence sheathed in weatherboarding with elements of the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. It features a tent-roof tower, hipped roof, and porch with Doric order columns.
Williams-Ball-Copeland House, also known as the Franks House, The Villa, Hampton Heights, and Baptist Retirement Center, is a historic home located at Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was built about 1859-1861 as a summer residence. It is a two-story, Italianate style brick residence with a stuccoed and scored exterior. Also on the property are two, small, brick outbuildings; originally the summer kitchen and the other was a combination smokehouse and food storage house.
Allen Dial House, located on Cedar Valley Farm, is a historic home located near Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was built about 1855, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, rectangular frame dwelling sheathed in narrow width weatherboard in a vernacular interpretation of the Greek Revival style. It sits on a high stuccoed masonry foundation. The front facade features a pedimented portico supported by four paired and fluted pillars. Also on the property is a rectangular one-story outbuilding, originally a kitchen.
Irby-Henderson-Todd House is a historic home located at Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was built about 1838 and was enlarged in both 1855 and 1880, and displays an architectural evolution from an antebellum farmhouse to a Classical Revival mansion with later Victorian details. Distinctive features include the two-story pedimented portico. Also on the property is a 19th-century well house (smokehouse).
South Harper Historic District is a national historic district located at Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It encompasses 44 contributing buildings in a residential section of Laurens. It includes a collection of early-20th century vernacular residences and houses that range in date from the early-19th century to about 1935, with almost half having been built during the first decade of the 20th century. Architectural styles include Neo-Classical, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow. Notable dwellings include the Hix-Blackwell House, H. Douglas Gray House, Machen-Long House, and Gov. Robert Archer Cooper House.
Laurens County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina.
Lindley's Fort Site is a historic archaeological site located near Madens, Laurens County, South Carolina. The site is located on a wooded hill, the highest rise of land surrounded mostly by open fields. It is believed that the fort was constructed by a private individual for needed protection in the backcountry. It is possible that the fort was built during the early 1760s since there were Indian disturbances in the area during that time. Captain James Lindley, owner of the fort at the time of the American Revolutionary War, was a Loyalist. On July 15, 1776, Lindley's Fort became very important to the area residents, when part of the British plan of attack was to encourage Indian uprisings in the backcountry.
James Carnes House, also known as "The Myrtles," is a historic home located at Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina. It was built about 1836, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style frame house. It has a gable roof, weatherboard siding, brick foundation and stuccoed exterior end brick chimneys. The house features a large, two-story, pedimented portico on the front façade, with four larger square, frame columns with Doric order motif capitals. A large 1+1⁄2-story addition was added to the rear about 1900, when the house was made into a boarding house.
Ellerbe's Mill, also known as Millvale, is a historic grist mill complex located near Rembert, Sumter County, South Carolina. The mill was built about 1830, and is a 2 1/2-story pine clapboard building mounted on wooden pilings situated on a 90-acre millpond. Also located on the property is the associated store (1910); the two-story, frame Victorian style main house ; several tenant houses; and a dovecote.
