Fountain Fox Beattie House
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Fountain Fox Beattie House
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Greenville Woman's Club
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| Location | 8 Bennett Street, Greenville, South Carolina |
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| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1834 |
| Architectural style | Italianate, Italian Villa |
| NRHP Reference # | 74001859[1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 9, 1974 |
The Fountain Fox Beattie House, the home of Greenville Woman's Club from 1950 to 2014, is a historic house in Greenville, South Carolina.[2][3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]
History
The house was built c. 1834 on East North Street by merchant and banker Fountain Fox Beattie for his bride, Emily Edgeworth. Originally the house had a simple design, two rooms on each floor with a separate kitchen behind the house. Beattie prospered even during Reconstruction, and generations of his family continued to live into the house well into the 20th century. Probably in the 1880s, the Beatties added one-story wings and an elaborately columned porch with Italianate brackets. After the death of Mrs. John Beattie in 1938, the family rented out the house. In 1946, when the house stood in the way of street widening, Greenville club women asked the city to buy and preserve the house as their meeting place. The house was moved to a new street, named Beattie Place, and rented to the Woman's Club for a dollar a year. When Beattie Place also became a busy thoroughfare, the house was moved once again in 1983 to a site off Bennett Street.[4] [5]
In 2014, citing declining membership, the Greenville Woman's Club disbanded, and ownership of the historic house reverted to the city of Greenville.[6] The following year, the city sold the house to Black Knight International, a development group owned by Marc Player, son of professional golfer Gary Player, which planned to repurpose the building into office space.[7]
Architecture
The two-story structure has one-story wings. The roof on the central portion is flat except for a small central gable. The wings have a flat, balustraded roof. There is a one-story piazza supported by six pairs of columns. These form three large and two smaller arches. The main entrance is a set of double doors.[1]
References
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- ↑ Judith Bainbridge, "Historic Beattie House looking for someone to call it home," Greenville News, June 4, 2014, City People, 2.
- ↑ Greenville News, April, 8, 2014.
- ↑ Eric Connor, "Gary Player Group buys Greenville's Beattie House," Greenville News, April 30, 2015, 6A.
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