The J. D. and Millicent Massey House was built in the 1930s from a Leila Ross Wilburn plan. It stayed in the Massey family for several decades. It is now a law office.
Massey House – A Leila Ross Wilburn House in Greenville, South Carolina
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Lanneau-Norwood-Funderburk House of Greenville, South Carolina
The Lanneau-Norwood-Funderburk House was built in 1877 for Charles H. Lanneau by Charleston architect Jacob Cagle. Lanneau was involved in several local textile mills. He even founded the Lanneau Manufacturing Company on adjacent land to the home. Like many homes during this time period, the home was destroyed by fire twice and rebuilt both times.
After becoming bankrupt in 1907, Lanneau sold the Second Empire home to local banker John Wilkins Norwood. When he passed away in 1945, his daughter Frances Norwood Funderburk inherited the home. She then passed it to her son, George Norwood.
To view photos of the inside, the house can be seen in a 2021 listing.
White Oaks of Greenville, South Carolina
White Oaks was designed by noted architect Philip Trammell Shutze in 1957 for Charles and Homozel Daniel. Charles Daniel was a contractor and co-owner of Daniel International Construction Corporation. He was a trustee of Clemson University and a generous donor to the College of Architecture at Clemson. He also briefly served as a United States Senator in 1954.
The 9,750-square-foot home is a copy of the rebuilt Governor’s Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia. In 1992, Homozel Daniel donated White Oaks to Furman University. It now serves as the President’s house.
McBee Chapel Honors the “Father of Greenville”
Along the Reedy River in Greenville County, South Carolina, is the mill town of Conestee, founded in the 1830s. The McBee United Methodist Church, designed by John Adams and built in 1841, is located there. Adams utilized the octagonal design to allow for more seating space. At one point, a slave gallery was built above the floor seating. It was removed after the Civil War.
The church was named after Vardy McBee and his son Alexander, who donated money and land for its construction. In 1815, Vardry McBee purchased 11,000 acres in the area now known as Greenville and built a sawmill, brickyard, and ironworks.
Built in the 1840s, Cool Springs Primitive Baptist Church Still Stands Today in Greenville County
The Cool Springs Primitive Baptist Church was organized in the 1830s, and by the 1840s, this wood-frame church was built. The church used this building until the 1950s when a brick church building was erected to replace the wooden building.
Our Lady of Vietnam Park-Greenville County, South Carolina
North of Greer, South Carolina, is the unexpected Our Lady of Vietnam Park, built by Catholic refugees from Vietnam. It features the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child and was dedicated on November 24, 1991, during the Feast of the Holy Martyrs. The event remembers the 117 Vietnamese martyrs who were persecuted for their Catholicism during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
According to Wikipedia, Buddhism and Catholicism are the largest organized religions in the country. Still, most people in Vietnam either follow an unorganized faith tradition, are classified as Vietnamese folk religion, or are atheists. There are approximately 7 million Catholics in Vietnam and 1 million Vietnamese Catholic expatriates.