Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House

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Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House
GREGG-WALLACE FARM TENANT HOUSE, MARS BLUFF, FLORENCE COUNTY, SC.jpg
Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House is located in South Carolina
Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House
Location310 Price Rd., near Mars Bluff, South Carolina
Coordinates34°12′06″N 79°39′07″W / 34.20167°N 79.65194°W / 34.20167; -79.65194Coordinates: 34°12′06″N 79°39′07″W / 34.20167°N 79.65194°W / 34.20167; -79.65194
Arealess than one acre
Builtc. 1890 (1890)
NRHP reference No.01001550[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 28, 2002

Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House is a historic home located near Mars Bluff, Florence County, South Carolina. It was built about 1890, and is representative of a typical Mars Bluff vernacular tenant house for African Americans. Tenant houses often evolved from one-room slave houses, first by the addition of a shed room at the rear and a front porch, then by the addition of a second room.[2][3]

The house is noted for being the place where the English chef Gregg Wallace was conceived. Wallace revealed in a 2019 interview that his parents had been staying in the house whilst on holiday in South Carolina and decided to name their son after it. [4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Amelia Wallace Vernon (August 2001). "Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  3. ^ "Gregg-Wallace Farm Tenant House, Florence County (310 Price Rd., Mars Bluff vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  4. ^ Murphy, James (31 May 2019). "Gregg Wallace: I met two of my wives on Twitter. I don't want to meet any more". The Times. London. Retrieved 14 June 2020.


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