PENDLETON — An almost 200-year-old residence with a storied historical past in Anderson County is at the moment on the market for $1.3 million.
The Glen, a personal residence constructed within the 1830s, has connections to generations of native docs, and navy and authorities leaders. The 5-bed, 3.5 tub residence was final offered in 1998, in accordance with realtor.com.
The 8.4-acre property features a Federal-style home, a vegetable backyard and a courtyard with a tiny cottage. It’s a few half-mile from Pendleton Sq. and 4 miles from Clemson College’s predominant campus.
Jackie Reynolds, treasurer of the Pendleton Historic Basis, wrote a e-book on the small city’s historic timeline, spanning from 1785 to 2020. Included inside “Recollections and Reflections of Pendleton, South Carolina” is a piece on the home at 144 Micasa Dr. in Pendleton, outlining a few of the earlier homeowners of The Glen.
The home was constructed by Dr. Arthur Smith Gibbes on land gifted to him and his spouse by his father-in-law. Gibbes was the nephew of Lewis L. Gibbes, who constructed Ashtabula, a historic Upstate plantation residence at 2725 Previous Greenville Hwy in Pendleton. The Ashtabula home is now owned and managed by the Pendleton Historic Basis, serving as a museum.
Arthur Smith Gibbes was a health care provider and dentist in a primary ground room in Farmer’s Corridor. In the present day, a part of the corridor is residence to American restaurant 1826 Bistro. After shifting away from the Upstate, Gibbes grew to become identified for working to seek out the supply of yellow fever.
Gibbes offered The Glen to Samuel Earle Maxwell, the great-grandson of American Revolutionary Battle Gen. Robert Anderson, the namesake for each the town and county of Anderson. Maxwell lived in Pendleton together with his spouse, three kids and 12 enslaved individuals, per Reynolds’ e-book. He served as a councilman who helped with the petition to resume the city’s constitution of incorporation in 1853. He additionally owned a plantation alongside the Seneca River.
In 1859, Maxwell gave The Glen to his daughter Sue Conyers after she married Dr. Thomas J. Pickens. Her husband was the grandson of Ezekiel Pickens, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 1802 to 1804. Ezekiel Pickens had familial ties to John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina politician who served as U.S. vp from 1825-32. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation is now the situation of Clemson College.
The home was later owned by Thomas W. Stevens after which R.L. Pruitt, who nicknamed it Pruitt Place. Pruitt offered off a portion of the property close to Mechanic Avenue the place the Clemson Little Theater is immediately. After Pruitt, a number of Clemson College professors owned the property.
In the present day, the current proprietor is represented by Sherry Traynum of Pine To Palm Realty Group in Anderson. Traynum grew up in Pendleton and drove by the home for years, she stated. She instructed the Submit and Courier that the excitement surrounding the property began earlier than it was listed, with a handful of individuals trying on the residence earlier than it was in the marketplace.
“I used to be shocked and amazed for this home to be as previous because it was, once I walked in it, it replicated like a model new home — all of the historic integrity, intact,” Traynum stated.
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