Located on Connecticut Avenue in Spartanburg, South Carolina, this 1913 Craftsman bungalow was home to the Boyd family from 1919 until the 1970s. Mrs. Boyd was known for garden, so it wouldn’t be a surprise if the azaleas were planted by her.
In the 1920s, Greenville decided they were going to demolish the city’s records building, and a local utilities executive, William B. Ellis, supposedly sent employees with a caravan of trucks to gather the stone from the building to build his new home atop a hill overlooking downtown Greenville.
The Ellis family lived in the home until the early 1990s.
The home is currently for sale. The listing can be found here.
This Tudor-inspired house was built in 1928. Walter and Susie Watters were the first family to call this house their home.
Located on Haynie Street, Jesse Jackson grew up in this house in Greenville, South Carolina. Born on October 8, 1941, Jackson graduated from Sterling High School. Known as a leader in high school, Jackson became known as one of the members of the “Greenville 8,” eight men and women who entered the Greenville public libraries to desegregate them.
Jackson’s mother, Helen Burns Jackson, lived in Greenville until she died in 2015.
Tax records indicate the home was built in 1822. I cannot locate additional information on the house at the moment.
This Victorian home originally served as the Methodist parsonage. It eventually was purchased by the McNinch family who lived in the home until the late 1990s. The home is currently vacant.
