Historic Price House (Price's Post Office)

Black-and-white photograph of the Price House: a two-and-a-half-story brick house with shuttered windows, a centered white door, two roof dormers and a chimney at each end, with a wooden outbuilding at left. — Photo: Historic American Buildings Survey, HABS SC-624-1. Public domain (U.S. government work, no known restrictions). Source ↗

More photographs

Black-and-white photograph of the Price House seen at an angle, showing the brick front with shuttered windows and dormers and the steep gambrel roof on the end.

Front and end, seen at an angle SC-624-4

Black-and-white photograph of the tall brick end wall of the Price House with its gambrel roofline and chimney, a one-story brick wing, and a log outbuilding at right.

The gambrel end and a one-story wing SC-624-6

Black-and-white photograph of the back of the Price House, with bare trees and the one-story brick wing in front of the main house.

From the rear SC-624-9

Black-and-white interior photograph: a room with a fireplace and mantel, a set dining table with chairs, a sideboard, and a glass-front cupboard.

A dining room SC-624-11

Black-and-white interior photograph of a large brick cooking hearth with iron pots and utensils, beside a small window.

A brick cooking hearth SC-624-13

Color photograph across a mown field: the red-brick Price House with its gambrel roof at left, partly behind trees, and a small weathered log building on stone piers at right.

The house and its log outbuilding, 2021 Bubba73

Color photograph of a small one-room log building with weathered board siding, a shuttered window, a gable roof and wooden steps at the side, standing on stone piers in the grass.

The log building the site identifies as early 19th-century slave quarters, 2021 Bubba73

Color photograph of the long red-brick front of the Price House, with blue-gray shutters, three dormers in the steep roof and shrubs along the foundation, framed by trees.

The brick front and dormers, 2021 Bubba73

Photos: Historic American Buildings Survey, HABS SC-624 (SC-624-4, SC-624-6, SC-624-9, SC-624-11, SC-624-13). Public domain (U.S. government work, no known restrictions). Source ↗

Photos: Bubba73, via Wikimedia Commons (June 2021). CC BY-SA 3.0. Sources: 1 ↗ 2 ↗ 3 ↗

Thomas and Anne Price built this 2½-story brick house around 1795, just northeast of today's Woodruff. Its gambrel roof and Flemish-bond brick walls were unusual for the Upcountry. The Prices ran a general store, a post office (Price's P.O.), a tavern and an inn here. Stagecoach travelers slept in the rooms under the roof.

The work was done largely by enslaved African Americans. When Thomas Price died in 1820, he enslaved twenty-four people. The museum shows a typical Upcountry slave cabin; it is not original to the site and was moved here to help tell their story.

The Spartanburg County Historical Association owns and operates the house as a museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. The house is currently closed to the public for renovations. Check the Historical Association's page before you visit.