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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Magness-Humphries House

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.

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

References

  1. ^ "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.