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Magness-Humphries House

Coordinates: 35°08′08″N 81°40′26″W / 35.13556°N 81.67389°W / 35.13556; -81.67389
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Magness-Humphries House
Magness-Humphries House, March 2012
Magness-Humphries House is located in South Carolina
Magness-Humphries House
Magness-Humphries House is located in the United States
Magness-Humphries House
Location101 Grassy Pond Rd., near Gaffney, South Carolina
Coordinates35°08′08″N 81°40′26″W / 35.13556°N 81.67389°W / 35.13556; -81.67389
Area44.7 acres (18.1 ha)
Built1871 (1871), 1904
Architectural styleQueen Anne
NRHP reference No.01001159[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 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]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Magness-Humphries House, Cherokee County (101 Grassy Pond Rd., Gaffney vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  3. ^ Beth Hicks Phillips (April 2001). "Magness-Humphries House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved 25 February 2014.