Puritan Farm

Puritan Farm
Silo at Puritan Farm, November 2012
Location West of St. Matthews, near St. Matthews, South Carolina
Coordinates 33°39′48″N 80°48′56″W / 33.66333°N 80.81556°W / 33.66333; -80.81556Coordinates: 33°39′48″N 80°48′56″W / 33.66333°N 80.81556°W / 33.66333; -80.81556
Area 6 acres (2.4 ha)
Built 1820 (1820)-1825
NRHP Reference # 74001829[1]
Added to NRHP July 25, 1974

Puritan Farm, also known as Keitt-Whaley-Pearlstine House, is a historic plantation house located near St. Matthews, Calhoun County, South Carolina. It was built between 1820 and 1825, and is a large white two-story clapboard frame I-house. It has a pedimented second floor porch addition, two connecting rear wings, and a full-width front porch with six square columns. The main block of the house is one-room deep with a central hall on each floor. The house was the residence of Congressman Laurence M. Keitt, a leader of the South Carolina secessionist movement. Keitt was born in this house in 1824 and maintained it as his residence until his death in 1864.[2][3]

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Puritan Farm, Calhoun County (St. Matthews vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  3. ↑ John W. Califf, III, and Jeanne W. Ulmer (January 1973). "Puritan Farm" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved 25 February 2014.


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