Gaffney Residential Historic District

Historic district in South Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Gaffney Residential Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Queen Anne style historic home on East Rutledge Ave
35°4′1″N 81°38′54″W / 35.06694°N 81.64833°W / 35.06694; -81.64833
Area	71.7 acres (29.0 ha)
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Bungalow/craftsman, Queen Anne
MPS	Gaffney MRA
NRHP reference No.	86000601^[1]
Added to NRHP	March 27, 1986

Gaffney Residential Historic District national historic district located at Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 111 contributing building in a primarily residential area of Gaffney. The majority of the buildings were built between about 1890 and about 1930, and consist of houses sited on large urban lots and oriented towards wide, tree-lined streets. Homes are generally of frame or brick construction with fine examples of the Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Neoclassical, Victorian and Bungalow styles as well as traditional vernacular forms. Included in the district are homes of textile mill executives, merchants, and other professionals who lived in Gaffney during its boom period at the turn of the 20th century.^[2]^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Gaffney Residential Historic District, Cherokee County (Gaffney)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
^ unknown (n.d.). "Gaffney Residential Historic District" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved February 25, 2014. and Accompanying map