Historic buildings -- South Carolina -- Pendleton.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Foundation for Historic Restoration in Pendleton Area Records
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0222
Scope and Contents
The records of the Foundation include booklets, brochures, clippings, correspondence, lists, minutes, newsletter drafts, notes, receipts, reports and speeches. Most of the collection consists of notes and copies of drafts of annual meeting (1979-1984) and Board of Directors meeting (1972, 1974-1984, 1987, undated) minutes and newsletter drafts (1974, 1976-1977). There are also brochures for Ashtabula and Woodburn as well as for historic buildings in the Pendleton area in general; clippings...
Dates:
1960, 1964-1965, 1968-1970, 1972-1985, 1987, undated
Historic American Buildings Survey Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0181
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, photographs, blueprints and architectural drawings created as a result of Historic American Buildings Surveys in 1934, 1940, 1960 and 1963 in three South Carolina upstate counties. The correspondence was generated mainly by Mary Stevenson in 1963 and 1968 and pertains to the historic buildings in this collection. In 1960 Jack Boucher from HABS photographed historic buildings in the South Carolina counties of Anderson, Oconee and Pickens. The...
Dates:
1934, 1940, 1960, 1963, and 1968
Mary Stevenson Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0353
Abstract
The Mary Stevenson Collection documents the people and places of the South Carolina counties of Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens—especially the Clemson-Pendleton area—through the research of Mary Stevenson, a Clemson University librarian and chair of the Research and Publication Committee of the Foundation for Historic Restoration in the Pendleton Area. The collection also documents the families who lived in or were associated with the two historic houses the Foundation operates, Ashtabula and...
Dates:
1784 - 1995; Majority of material found within , 1960-1988
Pendleton District Courthouse and Jail Buildings Collection
Collection — Oversize_folder 1
Identifier: Mss-0235
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of photostatic copies of items from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History filed under "Public Improvements--Buildings; Petitions 1826; Pendleton District--Courthouse". The items in this collection include a 1819 petition to purchase a lot to build a jail in Pendleton, SC; an 1826 memorial and a statement concerning the erection of a new courthouse in Pendleton, the former having a plan of the village appended to it; an 1826 certification concerning the...
Dates:
1969 - 1969
Pendleton Farmers' Society Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0210
Abstract
The Pendleton Farmers' Society was organized on June 12, 1815, as the "Farmers Society of Pendleton District"; its first president was Thomas Pinckney, Jr. The Pendleton Farmers' Society's original building, the Pendleton Farmers' Hall located on the square in Pendleton, South Carolina, is considered to be the oldest farmers' hall in the United States.
Dates:
1815 - 1965
Pendleton (SC) History Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0234
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of articles, newspaper clippings, historical tour itineraries and other material relating to the history of Pendleton, SC, especially historical buildings in the city and surrounding area. Included are a biographical sketch of Samuel Earle Maxwell, a prominent landowner; a list of historic homes (and other buildings) in Pendleton and the families who occupied them; a short history of "Old Pendleton"; and a photocopy of a document that may have been written by Edmund...
Dates:
1934, 1945, 1960-1061, 1966, undated
Rudolph Edward Lee Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0041
Abstract
The Lee Papers document the life of Rudolph E. Lee, a member of Clemson University’s first graduating class and part of the Architecture faculty for over sixty years, as well as the first head of the School of Architecture and the architect for several buildings on the Clemson campus. The papers also contain information relating to his wife, Mary Louise Lee, and his daughter, Louise Egleston Page. The Lee Papers are important for documenting the history of Clemson University, the School of...
Dates:
1891 - 1985; 1913 - 1945