Smith-Cannon House

Historic house in South Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Smith-Cannon House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Rear of the house
34°8′5″N 79°56′35″W / 34.13472°N 79.94306°W / 34.13472; -79.94306
Area	1.8 acres (0.73 ha)
Built	c. 1897 (1897)-1900
Architectural style	Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.	83002195^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 28, 1983

Smith-Cannon House, also known as the B.O.V.B. (Big Old Victorian Barn), is a historic home located at Timmonsville, Florence County, South Carolina. It was built about 1897–1900, and is a two-story, asymmetrical plan house in the Queen Anne style. It has a full attic and is sheathed in weatherboard. The house features a 2+1⁄2-story round turret; a one-story, shed roofed porch that stretches across the entire façade, wraps the turret, and extends to form a porte-cochère. It was built for Charles Aurelius Smith, prominent government figure as mayor of Timmonsville, member of the state house of representatives, twice lieutenant governor, and governor of South Carolina for five days.^[2]^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.^[1]

Front of the house showing the turret

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Suzanne Pickens Wylie; Martha Walker Fullington & Pete Rogers (May 1983). "Smith-Cannon House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
^ "Smith-Cannon House, Florence County (106 W. Market St., Timmonsville)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 5 July 2012.