Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 95000638 | Built c. 1836 (1836) Added to NRHP 26 May 1995 | |
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Location 1 Douglas St., near Glendale, South Carolina Architectural style Mid 19th Century Revival, Roman Revival | ||
Bivings-Converse House is a historic home located near Glendale, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was built about 1836, and is a 2 1/2-story frame mansion in a vernacular Roman Revival (or Greek Revival) style. It has a gable roof and front and rear porches with fluted Roman Doric order columns. About 1890, two Victorian bays and a kitchen wing was added. It was the home of Dr. James Bivings (1781-1869), prominent local textile pioneer, and Dexter Edgar Converse (1829-1899), industrialist, textile entrepreneur, and founder of Converse College.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
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