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Wade Hampton Hicks House The Wade Hampton Hicks House is significant as an intact example of Craftsman influenced residential architecture which evolved over time and for its association with Wade Hampton Hicks (1874-1945), prominent Hartsville farmer and businessman who founded W.H. Hicks and Son Feed and Seed Company. This house was built in 1901 as a one-story residence, but by 1919 a second story was added to accommodate the needs of Hicks’s growing family. The two-story residence, set upon a brick foundation, has a rectangular plan, a three-bay façade and a hip roof which reveals wide overhangs and exposed rafter tails, and is clad in asphalt shingles. A one-story hip roof porch with wide overhang, exposed rafter tails and simple balustrade wraps onto the east and west elevations and is supported by paired square wood columns on brick piers. The central entry features a single-leaf, fifteen-light door with a Craftsman-influenced surround, shelf architrave, and sidelights. The main entrance also features a historic decorative spindle-work screen door. A small wooden carriage house/smokehouse, also constructed ca. 1901, is to the rear and contributes to the historic character of the property. Listed in the National Register September 8, 1994.
Zeno Hicks House (McKinney-Hicks Homeplace) The Zeno Hicks House, built in 1886, is a relatively intact example of a vernacular rural farmhouse of the late nineteenth century and is associated with Zeno Hicks, a prominent local folk doctor and musician of Cherokee County. The house is architecturally significant as a rare example of a central-chimney I-House in the state. Many of the original finishes, such as batten doors, plain mantels and paneled walls still remain. The unusual Y-shaped stair leading to the second floor is the only identified example in the state. Ramus Wadkins, a local craftsman, built the house on land Nan Hicks had inherited from her father. In 1887 Jubilee Lovelace, another local craftsman, added the porch which originally extended around the four sides of the house. The house is a two-story, rectangular frame house built of weatherboard hand sawn from heart pine. A one-story addition was built in 1888 adjoining the main block at the rear; each block has a gabled roof. A one-story porch with shed roof, built in 1887, extends around the façade (southeast elevation) to the southwest elevation on the main block. The rear elevation of the house has a shed roof which continues the porch roof over a small addition created by the partial enclosure of the porch as a storage room c. 1955. The property also contains an historic outbuilding, once used as a corncrib. Hicks, though he had no formal medical training, served the Chesnee community as a doctor and veterinarian, learning from medical books, journals, and experience. Hicks was also a noted musician. He and five brothers formed “the Hicks Orchestra” in 1875, which performed for nearly 50 years in North and South Carolina. Listed in the National Register February 2, 1989.
Brianna Hicks
See photo in original gallery.
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