Historic buildings -- South Carolina -- Pickens County.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Historic American Buildings Survey Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0181
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, photographs, blueprints and architectural drawings created as a result of Historic American Buildings Surveys in 1934, 1940, 1960 and 1963 in three South Carolina upstate counties. The correspondence was generated mainly by Mary Stevenson in 1963 and 1968 and pertains to the historic buildings in this collection. In 1960 Jack Boucher from HABS photographed historic buildings in the South Carolina counties of Anderson, Oconee and Pickens. The...
Dates:
1934, 1940, 1960, 1963, and 1968
Historic Houses Office Records
Collection
Identifier: Series-0360
Abstract
The records of the Historic Houses Office are of particular value to those researching Clemson’s founding history through its built environment and to those interested in understanding the university’s record of historic preservation. This collection contains all office and departmental records pertaining to the activities of the Historic Houses Office (now called the Department of Historic Properties).
The collection comprises meetings, agendas, budgets and personnel records as well as...
Dates:
1989 - 2019
Mary Stevenson Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0353
Abstract
The Mary Stevenson Collection documents the people and places of the South Carolina counties of Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens—especially the Clemson-Pendleton area—through the research of Mary Stevenson, a Clemson University librarian and chair of the Research and Publication Committee of the Foundation for Historic Restoration in the Pendleton Area. The collection also documents the families who lived in or were associated with the two historic houses the Foundation operates, Ashtabula and...
Dates:
1784 - 1995; Majority of material found within , 1960-1988
Pendleton (SC) History Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0234
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of articles, newspaper clippings, historical tour itineraries and other material relating to the history of Pendleton, SC, especially historical buildings in the city and surrounding area. Included are a biographical sketch of Samuel Earle Maxwell, a prominent landowner; a list of historic homes (and other buildings) in Pendleton and the families who occupied them; a short history of "Old Pendleton"; and a photocopy of a document that may have been written by Edmund...
Dates:
1934, 1945, 1960-1061, 1966, undated
Town of Calhoun, South Carolina Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0279
Abstract
W.J. Megginson conducted a series of interviews with 17 residents of Calhoun, SC in 1988 and 1989 as part of research for a lecture entitled Calhoun, South Carolina: the Founding of the Town, its Early Years, and Its Relationship to Clemson Agricultural College, 1890-1910. The interviews focus on everyday life in the small town that developed around an upcountry South Carolina train depot in the early 1890's and for over 50 years was known as Calhoun before...
Dates:
1988-1989