Puritan Farm

Historic house in South Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Puritan Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Silo at Puritan Farm, November 2012
33°39′48″N 80°48′56″W / 33.66333°N 80.81556°W / 33.66333; -80.81556
Area	6 acres (2.4 ha)
Built	1820 (1820)-1825
NRHP reference No.	74001829^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 25, 1974

Puritan Farm, also known as Keitt-Whaley-Pearlstine House, is a historic plantation house located near St. Matthews, Calhoun County, South Carolina. It was built between 1820 and 1825, and is a large white two-story clapboard frame I-house. It has a pedimented second floor porch addition, two connecting rear wings, and a full-width front porch with six square columns. The main block of the house is one-room deep with a central hall on each floor. The house was the residence of Congressman Laurence M. Keitt, a leader of the South Carolina secessionist movement. Keitt was born in this house in 1824 and maintained it as his residence until his death in 1864.^[2]^[3]

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Puritan Farm, Calhoun County (St. Matthews vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
^ John W. Califf, III & Jeanne W. Ulmer (January 1973). "Puritan Farm" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved 25 February 2014.