Fort Hill, Spring House, Clemson University Campus, Clemson, Pickens County, SC. Surveyed as HABS SC,39-CLEM,1C-, with a 243-word written history.
“Although restored, the Spring House is representative of the building technology available to keep nineteenth-century foodstuffs chilled.”
Written record, HABS SC,39-CLEM,1C- survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HABS program as HABS SC,39-CLEM,1C- · the record runs 243 words · one of 12 surveyed structures published for this county.
Source document Quoted word for word from HABS SC,39-CLEM,1C-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.
Clemson University Campus, Clemson, Pickens County, South Carolina. Situated in the center of the campus and included in the Fort Hill site, the Spring House is north of main house. Fort Hill and its outbuildings are located near the intersection of Fort Hill Street and Calhoun Drive.
Source document Quoted word for word from HABS SC,39-CLEM,1C-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.
Although restored, the Spring House is representative of the building technology available to keep nineteenth-century foodstuffs chilled. Typically in Spring Houses, planters kept diary products such as milk and butter as well as other eatables. Description: The Spring House has a Greek Revival portico stoop. The condition of the fabric is fair. The Spring House, however, is closed to the public because of stabilization problems.
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Historic descriptions recorded a gazebo type structure sitting on top of the Spring House. In a view taken the ca. TAPS, the Clemson College yearbook, a similar structure is shown. The restored interior was captured in a newspaper account around A sketch of the exterior and the engineering plan exists.
| Clemson, South Carolina | The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town. |
| Pickens County, South Carolina | 77 topographic sheets across the county. |
| Library of Congress record | The original filed report as the survey filed it. |
The federal surveyors worked through Clemson building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.
| Sheet | Structure | Survey | Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Hill | HABS SC,39-CLEM,1- | 18,153 words | |
| Fort Hill | HABS SC,39-CLEM,1A- | 1,207 words | |
| Fort Hill | HABS SC,39-CLEM,1B- | 959 words | |
| Fort Hill | HABS SC,39-CLEM,1D- | 612 words | |
| Hopewell Meetinghouse | HABS SC,37-CLEM.V,1- | 257 words | |
| Old Stone Church & Cemetery | HABS SC,39-CLEM.V,1- | 179 words | |
| Hopewell Plantation | HABS SC-873 | 84 words | |
| Hanover | HABS SC,8-PINOP.V,12- | no text held |
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