John Calvin Wilson House

Historic house in South Carolina, United States

United States historic place


John Calvin Wilson House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

John Calvin Wilson house, January 2013
33°45′10″N 79°39′31″W / 33.75278°N 79.65861°W / 33.75278; -79.65861
Area	4.2 acres (1.7 ha)
Built	c. 1847 (1847)
NRHP reference No.	82003905^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 28, 1982

John Calvin Wilson House is a historic home located near Indiantown, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It was built about 1847, and is a two-story, five-bay, frame central-hall plan I-house. It features a shed roofed, one-story "Carolina" or "rain porch" supported by four stuccoed brick columns. A one-story frame rear wing was added in 1939. John Calvin Wilson was a politician and a successful planter. He died at Richmond, Virginia of complications from a thigh wound sustained in the Battle of Cold Harbor.^[2]^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Suzanne Pickens-Wylie; John Wells; Edmund Kirby-Smith (December 1981). "John Calvin Wilson House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
^ "John Calvin Wilson House, Williamsburg County (S.C. Hwy. 512, Indiantown vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-07-01.