Beaty--Little House - Conway, South Carolina
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BruceS
N 33° 50.310 W 079° 02.907
17S E 680575 N 3745962
Historic home in Conway, South Carolina.
Waymark Code: WM2J1J
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 11/09/2007
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"The Beaty-Little House is significant as one of the few extant,
relatively intact residences in Conway dating from the antebellum period and for
its association with John R. Beaty and Henry P. Little. The house was built ca.
1855 for John Robinson Beaty by the Eaton brothers, shipbuilders from Bucksport,
Maine, who had moved to Horry County to build ships at Bucksville on the
Waccamaw River. It is a two-story, rectangular, central hall plan residence with
a hipped roof and two interior brick chimneys. The frame house is clad in
weatherboard and rests on a brick pier with brick infill foundation. A five-bay,
one-story, full-width, hipped-roof porch extends across the façade. This porch
features six turned, freestanding Tuscan-influenced columns. The porch deck is
recessed, i.e. a “rain porch,” and has an elaborately sawn balustrade. Beaty was
killed in the Civil War by friendly fire in 1865, the house remained in the
Beaty family until it was purchased by Henry Pyle Little in 1904. Little, a
building contractor from Tennessee, came to Conway in 1899 and built several of
the town’s public buildings, including the Horry County Courthouse, ca. 1906,
and the 1910 sanctuary of the Conway Methodist Church. He also served as Mayor
of Conway for five years and was active in local politics and business for
nearly forty years. Little lived in the house until his death in 1941. Listed in
the National Register August 5, 1986." ~ South Carolina Department of
Archives and History website