Built 1749 (1749) NRHP Reference # 70000606 Area 6 ha | Built by Witherspoon, James Opened 1749 Added to NRHP 28 October 1970 | |
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Location SC 527, in Fluitt-Nelson Memorial Park, Kingstree, South Carolina | ||
Thorntree, also known as the Witherspoon House, is a historic plantation house located at Kingstree, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It was built in 1749 by immigrant James Witherspoon (1700-1765), and is a two-story, five bay, frame “I-house” dwelling with a hall and parlor plan and exterior end chimneys. It features full-length piazzas on the front and rear elevations. In order to preserve it, the house was moved from an inaccessible rural site to Kingstree on land donated as a memorial park, known as Fluitt-Nelson Memorial Park. The house has been restored to its 18th-century appearance and is open to the public by appointment with the Williamsburg Historical Society.
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.