Magness-Humphries House

Historic house in South Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Magness-Humphries House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Magness-Humphries House, March 2012
35°08′08″N 81°40′26″W / 35.13556°N 81.67389°W / 35.13556; -81.67389
Area	44.7 acres (18.1 ha)
Built	1871 (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]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "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.
^ Beth Hicks Phillips (April 2001). "Magness-Humphries House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved 25 February 2014.