John Calvin Wilson House

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LocationSouth Carolina Highway 512, 3.7 miles northwest of its junction with SC Hwy 261, near Indiantown, South Carolina
Coordinates 33°45′10″N79°39′31″W / 33.75278°N 79.65861°W / 33.75278; -79.65861
Area4.2 acres (1.7 ha)
Builtc. 1847 (1847)
NRHP reference No. 82003905 [1]
Added to NRHPJune 28, 1982

John Calvin Wilson House is a historic home located near Indiantown, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It was built about 1847, and is a two-story, five-bay, frame central-hall plan I-house. It features a shed roofed, one-story "Carolina" or "rain porch" supported by four stuccoed brick columns. A one-story frame rear wing was added in 1939. John Calvin Wilson was a politician and a successful planter. He died at Richmond, Virginia of complications from a thigh wound sustained in the Battle of Cold Harbor. [2] [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [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. Suzanne Pickens-Wylie; John Wells; Edmund Kirby-Smith (December 1981). "John Calvin Wilson House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
  3. "John Calvin Wilson House, Williamsburg County (S.C. Hwy. 512, Indiantown vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-07-01.