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Historic buildings -- South Carolina.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Ethel Mitchell collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0005
Scope and Contents Carbon typescripts (38 pages) of the manuscript, The Romance of Fort Hill, written by Mrs. Mitchell in 1938. A photograph of a drawing of Fort Hill, the plantation of John C. Calhoun, drawn to Mrs. Mitchell's specifications, given by Jack Tuttle to the Library in 1961. This photograph is filed in the Mss Negatives and Photographs file. November 23, 1940, copy of A.G. Holmes letter to Mrs. Mitchell concerning the restoration of Fort Hill, witnessed by Muriel...
Dates: 1938, 1940, 1955, 1961

Fort Hill Mansion registers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0003
Scope and Content

Registers listing visitors to the home of John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), located on the Clemson University campus. From 1893-1932 no register was kept. Mrs. A.G. Holmes reintroduced the register beginning March 31, 1932.

Dates: 1888-1893, 1932-1937

Foundation for Historic Restoration in Pendleton Area Records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0222
Scope and Contents The records of the Foundation include booklets, brochures, clippings, correspondence, lists, minutes, newsletter drafts, notes, receipts, reports and speeches. Most of the collection consists of notes and copies of drafts of annual meeting (1979-1984) and Board of Directors meeting (1972, 1974-1984, 1987, undated) minutes and newsletter drafts (1974, 1976-1977). There are also brochures for Ashtabula and Woodburn as well as for historic buildings in the Pendleton area in general; clippings...
Dates: 1960, 1964-1965, 1968-1970, 1972-1985, 1987, undated

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

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

Old Cokesbury Photographs and Drawings

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0116
Scope and Contents

The collection contains two scrapbooks with texts and pictures of old houses in or near the village of Cokesbury in Greenwood County, South Carolina. The pictures are both photographs and drawings by the author. Correspondence between Mr. Moore and the Clemson library regarding duplication of the photos is also included.

Dates: 1960