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Magness Humphries House

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Built
  
1871 (1871), 1904

Area
  
18 ha

NRHP Reference #
  
01001159

Added to NRHP
  
20 October 2001

Magness-Humphries House

Location
  
101 Grassy Pond Rd., near Gaffney, South Carolina

Architectural style
  
Queen Anne style architecture

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

Magness-Humphries House Wikipedia