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Detail view of the south elevation to show varied rooflines; view looking from the southeast to the southwest corner of the main house; note kitchen wing in background - Fort Hill, Clemson University Campus, Clemson, Pickens County, SC
Photographer
Boucher, Jack E.
Title
Detail view of the south elevation to show varied rooflines; view looking from the southeast to the southwest corner of the main house; note kitchen wing in background - Fort Hill, Clemson University Campus, Clemson, Pickens County, SC
Description
Calhoun, John C; Clemson, Thomas G; Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter; Hiott, William D, historian; Louden, Elizabeth I, delineator; Howell, Martin Jeffrey, delineator; Dochterman, Abby J, delineator; Mui, Helen, delineator; Taylor, A Brooke, delineator; Yuen, Nancy Ka Po, delineator; Gborgiadou, Styliani, delineator; Boucher, Jack E, photographer; Price, Virginia B, transmitter
Depicted place South Carolina; Pickens County; Clemson
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS SC,39-CLEM,1-40
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  • Significance: Fort Hill was the home of the nineteenth-century statesman John C. Calhoun and his son-in-law Thomas Green Clemson, the founder of Clemson University. The house began in 1803 as a small, two-story, four room building constructed by the Reverend James McElhenny the pastor at the nearby old stone church. John C. Calhoun acquired Fort Hill, then known as Clergy Hall, in 1825. He added ten rooms to the central core during several renovations and renamed his enlarged estate "Fort Hill" in 1830. Today Fort Hill also refers to the larger complex, including the house, Calhoun's Office, a reconstructed kitchen, a partially restored spring house, and immediate grounds. The structures are furnished with many artifacts from the Calhoun and Clemson families. Since the University's founding, Fort Hill has operated as a historic house museum, as stipulated by a provision in the will of Thomas G. Clemson.

The historical significance of Fort Hill rests on the stature of John C. Calhoun, who served almost continually in national politics from 1810 until his death in 1850. In his office at Fort Hill, as Vice President, Calhoun reflected on the constitution and, in the fall of 1828, formulated ideas that were anonymously published as "the South Carolina Exposition and Protest." There, in July of 1831, he also penned his famous "Fort Hill Address" setting forth his doctrine of nullification outlining the concept of states' rights. Calhoun graduated from Yale University and the Tapping Reeve Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut. During his forty years of public service, Calhoun was a member of Congress (1811-17), Secretary of War (1817-25) under James Monroe, Vice President (1828-32) during Andrew Jackson's first term, Senator (1832-43), Secretary of State under John Tyler (1844-45), and again as Senator (1845-50). He is best remembered as a part of the great triumvirate in the U.S. Senate with Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.

  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N424
  • Survey number: HABS SC-344
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1802- 1850 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1825-1850 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1930-1939 Subsequent Work
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 66000708.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/sc0118.photos.206364p
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
Object location34° 40′ 59.99″ N, 82° 50′ 15″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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