SC 527, in Fluitt-Nelson Memorial Park, Kingstree, South Carolina. County/parish: Williamsburg.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 28, 1970. NRIS 70000606.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Thorntree, also known as the Witherspoon House, is a historic plantation house located at Kingstree, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It was built in 1749 by immigrant James Witherspoon (1700-1765), and is a two-story, five-bay, frame "I-house" dwelling with a hall and parlor plan and exterior end chimneys. It features full-length piazzas on the front and rear elevations. To preserve it, the house was moved from an inaccessible rural site to Kingstree on land donated as a memorial park, known as Fluitt-Nelson Memorial Park. The house has been restored to its 18th-century appearance and is open to the public by appointment with the Williamsburg Historical Society.
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/118998717