Robert G. Turner House

Last updated
Robert G. Turner House
Robert G Tuner House.jpg
Robert G Turner House, 2012
USA South Carolina location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Location305 N. Main St., Greer, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°56′34″N82°13′29″W / 34.942727°N 82.224742°W / 34.942727; -82.224742 Coordinates: 34°56′34″N82°13′29″W / 34.942727°N 82.224742°W / 34.942727; -82.224742
Arealess than one acre
Built1935 (1935)
ArchitectWilliam Riddle Ward
Architectural styleColonial Revival
NRHP reference No. 98001625 [1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 1, 1999

The Robert G. Turner House is located in Greer, South Carolina. The Colonial Revival style brick veneered house was designed by the prominent Greenville, South Carolina-based architect William Riddle Ward for Robert Gibbs Turner and Turner's wife, Mary. [2] Ward also designed the one-story brick veneered garage to match the house. [3]

Related Research Articles

Columbia Museum of Art Art museum in South Carolina, United States

The Columbia Museum of Art is an art museum in the American city of Columbia, South Carolina.

Hunziker House refers to several historic houses in the United States; including Julius Hunziker House, Marge Hunziker House and O. F. Hunziker House. Hunziker House also refers to the "Casa Hunziker" found in Switzerland.

William Blacklock House Historic house in South Carolina, United States

The William Blacklock House is a historic house at 18 Bull Street in Charleston, South Carolina. A National Historic Landmark, this brick house, built in 1800 for a wealthy merchant, is one of the nation's finest examples of Adamesque architecture. It is now owned by the College of Charleston, housing its Office of Alumni Relations.

Fireproof Building United States historic place

The Fireproof Building, also known as the County Records Building, is located at 100 Meeting Street, at the northwest corner of Washington Square, in Charleston, South Carolina. Completed in 1827, it was the most fire-resistant building in America at the time, and is believed to be the oldest fire-resistant building in America today.

Brick House Ruins Ruin of a 1725 plantation house on Edisto Island, South Carolina

The Paul Hamilton House, commonly referred to as the Brick House Ruins, is the ruin of a 1725 plantation house on Edisto Island, South Carolina, that burned in 1929. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970 for the unusual architecture of the surviving walls, which is partly based on French Huguenot architecture of the period.

James W. Hamer House Historic house in South Carolina, United States

The James W. Hamer House is a historic home located near Little Rock, Dillon County, South Carolina. It was built in 1910–1911, and is a large two-story, three bay, brick-veneered Neo-Classical Revival style residence. It has four symmetrically placed exterior end brick chimneys. The front facade features an Ionic order pedimented portico supported by two sets of paired brick columns. Also located on the property are several agricultural outbuildings and a mature pecan orchard that was likely planted by about 1920. It was the home of James Willis Hamer, farmer, state representative, and state senator of Dillon County during its first half-century.

Turner-Dodge House United States historic place

The Dodge Mansion, also known as Turner-Dodge House, is a historic house in Lansing, Michigan that was built in 1855. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1972 as Dodge Mansion.

R. Perry Turner House Historic house in South Carolina, United States

The R. Perry Turner House is located in Greer, South Carolina. The Classical Revival style house was built in 1937 for prominent local businessman Richard Perry Turner. The house was designed by Greenville-based architect William Riddle Ward, commissioned after Turner saw the house designed by Ward for his younger brother, Robert Gibbs Turner.

James C. Self House Historic house in South Carolina, United States

James C. Self House is a historic home in Greenwood, South Carolina, designed by local architect Thomas White Cothran (1874-1923) for textile magnate and philanthropist James Cuthbert Self (1876-1955) and built in 1917–1918. The house is a two-story, brick veneer Neoclassical style dwelling with a green Spanish tile hipped roof. It sits on a brick foundation faced with rock and an Ionic order portico that projects from the three central bays. The property includes a smokehouse/wellhouse and garage.

Gray Court-Owings School United States historic place

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.

Hotel Eutaw United States historic place

Hotel Eutaw, also known as the East Russell Street Inn, is a historic hotel located at Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was designed by architect G. Lloyd Preacher and built in 1926–1927. It is a seven-story, steel-frame with brick veneer, skyscraper with an "L"-shaped plan. The front façade features a projecting one-story, six bay, cast stone entrance block.

Walter Scott Montgomery House Historic house in South Carolina, United States

Walter Scott Montgomery House is a historic home located at Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was designed by architect George Franklin Barber and built in 1909. It is a 2+12-story, frame, yellow brick-veneer residence in the Colonial Revival style. building is of frame construction with a yellow brick veneer and a red tile roof. It features a distinctive portico and leaded glass windows. Also on the property is a one-story, reinforced concrete auto garage.

Union Community Hospital Hospital in South Carolina, United States

Union Community Hospital is a historic hospital building for African-American patients during segregation located at Union, Union County, South Carolina. The front section was built about 1915 as a frame residence, and is a two-story building on which a brick veneer was placed in the 1930s, with Neo-Classical style design elements. The brick rear section was added in 1949. The Union Community Hospital was founded in December 1932, and provided services to the African-American community of Union County for 43 years.

Afro-American Insurance Company Building United States historic place

Afro-American Insurance Company Building is a historic commercial building located at Rock Hill, South Carolina. It was built about 1909, and is a two-story, brick commercial building. The façade has a tan brick veneer, while the sides and rear are in red brick. It is an important surviving example of a commercial building related to the African-American community of the early-20th century.

Hollar Hosiery Mills-Knit Sox Knitting Mills United States historic place

Hollar Hosiery Mills-Knit Sox Knitting Mills is a historic knitting mill located at Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina. It consists of two mill brick manufacturing buildings and a boiler house that were connected by a hyphen in the mid-1960s. The first mill building was built about 1930, and is a one- to two-story, 16 bay, brick veneer structure. The boiler house was also built about 1930, and is a small, brick building, with its flat roof and terra cotta coping. The hosiery yarn mill was built about 1940, and is two-story, six bay by 10 bay, brick-veneered building. Both mill buildings feature banks of steel-sash factory windows. The knitting mill operated until 1968.

William H. Long House Historic house in North Carolina, United States

William H. Long House is a historic home located at Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was built in 1917–1918, and is a two-story, brick veneer dwelling with Classical Revival style design elements. It a hipped roof intersected by gable roofed wings on the back and sides. It features a monumental pedimented portico and porte cochere supported by paired Tuscan order columns. It was built by William Henry Long (1866–1920), who served as mayor of Greenville from 1901 to 1903. It was renovated about 1980 to house law offices.

Napoleon Bonaparte McCanless House Historic house in North Carolina, United States

Napoleon Bonaparte McCanless House is a historic home located at Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina. It is a three-story, three bay by four bay, Second Empire style dwelling faced with rusticated granite. It has a rounded corner tower and a steep, concave, mansard roof sheathed in decorative slate shingles. Also on the property is a one-story, granite-veneered brick outbuilding believed to have been the kitchen.

Paul and Ellen Welles House, also known as the Robert and Anne Dahle House, is a historic home located at Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. It was built in 1956, and is a two-story, split level Modern Movement-style dwelling. It has a brick-veneered lower level and a slightly cantilevered upper level sheathed with board-and-batten siding. It features an asymmetrical side-gable roof with wide overhanging eaves.

Iowa Beta Chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon United States historic place

Iowa Beta Chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon is a historic building in Ames, Iowa, United States. It is a large four-story brick structure that was built in 1931 for the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at Iowa State College. It was designed by Des Moines architect Amos B. Emery. It is the only Tudor Revival style building designed by Emory, and only one of two fraternity houses that he designed. The building features ornamental half-timbering and stucco veneered walls, a steeply pitched roof with two separate cross-gabled sections, and a two-story wing that is oriented diagonally from the main body of the house. Three of the four-floors are above grade and one is exposed on the back side via the sloping lot.

Voelcker & Dixon was an architectural firm based in Wichita Falls, Texas which designed numerous county courthouses in Texas and some works elsewhere. At least two of their works, the Jack County Courthouse, in Jacksboro, Texas, and the Chicot County Courthouse, in Arkansas, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "NRHP Nomination Form" (PDF) (PDF). Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  3. "Robert G. Turner House" . Retrieved November 20, 2013.