Magness-Humphries House | |
![]() Magness-Humphries House, March 2012 | |
Location | 101 Grassy Pond Rd., near Gaffney, South Carolina |
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Coordinates | 35°08′08″N81°40′26″W / 35.13556°N 81.67389°W |
Area | 44.7 acres (18.1 ha) |
Built | 1871 | , 1904
Architectural style | Queen Anne |
NRHP reference No. | 01001159 [1] |
Added to NRHP | October 20, 2001 |
Magness-Humphries House is a historic home and farm located near Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina. It was built in 1904, and is a two-story, frame Queen Anne / Classical Revival style farmhouse on brick and rock piers. It features a steep hipped roof and decorative chimneys. The property includes a barn, smoke house/potato house, and gear room. They date to 1871. Other outbuildings include a chicken/hen house built about 1918, a dibby house and pump house built in the 1940s, and several others built in the 1950s. James Judson Magness established a home and farm in 1871; his original home was destroyed by fire in 1904. [2] [3]
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1]