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Culp House

Coordinates: 34°43′10″N 81°37′19″W / 34.71944°N 81.62194°W / 34.71944; -81.62194
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Culp House
Culp House is located in South Carolina
Culp House
Culp House is located in the United States
Culp House
Location300 N. Mountain St., Union, South Carolina
Coordinates34°43′10″N 81°37′19″W / 34.71944°N 81.62194°W / 34.71944; -81.62194
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
Builtc. 1857 (1857)
Architectural styleGeorgian, Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.75001709[1]
Added to NRHPApril 9, 1975

Culp House is a historic home located at Union, Union County, South Carolina. It was built about 1857, and is a two-story, brick structure, with Georgian and Neo-Classical design details. The front façade features a two-tiered, five-bay porch with Doric order columns.[2][3]

Wade Hampton III delivered a speech from the front porch in 1876.[4]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Hunter V. Moss and Lloyd Gibbs (February 1975). "Culp House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
  3. ^ "Culp House, Union County (300 N. Mountain St., Union)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
  4. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1941). South Carolina: A Guide to the Palmetto State. Works Progress Administration. p. 402. ISBN 9780403021895.