Cool Springs (Camden, South Carolina)

Cool Springs

Cool Springs, HABS Photo
Location 726 Kershaw Highway, near Camden, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°17′37″N 80°36′36″W / 34.29361°N 80.61000°W / 34.29361; -80.61000Coordinates: 34°17′37″N 80°36′36″W / 34.29361°N 80.61000°W / 34.29361; -80.61000
Area 16 acres (6.5 ha)
Built c. 1832 (1832), c. 1850
Architect Reuben Hamilton
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP Reference # 89001596[1]
Added to NRHP September 28, 1989

Cool Springs is a historic home located near Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina. It was built about 1832, and is a two-story Greek Revival style house on a raise brick basement. The original house was remodeled in the 1850s. It features a tiered portico and verandahs, supported by 64 Doric order columns. A two-story kitchen addition was attached to the house about 1935. Also on the property are the contributing two horse stables, a concrete piscatory, an old stone spring, a brick basin, a dam, and granite gate posts.[2][3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Katherine H. Richardson and Robert B. Bennett, Jr. (June 1989). "Cool Springs" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  3. ↑ "Cool Springs, Kershaw County (726 Kershaw Hwy., Camden)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

External links

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. SC-342, "Coolspring, U.S. Routes 521 & 601, Camden, Kershaw County, SC", 3 photos, 2 data pages, 1 photo caption page


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