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Magnolia (Bennettsville, South Carolina)

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Built
  
1853

Opened
  
1853

Added to NRHP
  
14 March 1973

NRHP Reference #
  
73001721

Area
  
4,000 m²

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Location
  
508 E. Main Street Bennettsville, South Carolina

Magnolia House, also known as the Johnson-Kinney House, located in Bennettsville, South Carolina, is a fine example of an excellently preserved late antebellum neoclassical, or "bracketed Greek Revival" home in rural South Carolina. Magnolia is a two-story frame house constructed in 1853 by Bennettsville lawyer, William Dalrymple Johnson. Johnson was a signer of the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession.

Notable details of the structure include a one-story porch supported by ten Doric columns, which extends along the northern exposure and front portion of the eastern side. Also, matching double leaf, five paneled doors are at the front and rear entrances, framed by rectangular transoms and sidelights with unusual rectangular pane design. Boxed cornices are bracketed all around. Behind the house are a barn and the old slave quarters, which were built around the year 1853.

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Magnolia (Bennettsville, South Carolina) Wikipedia