Lanneau-Norwood House

The Lanneau-Norwood House ("Alta Vista") is a historic house in Greenville, South Carolina, built c. 1877 by Jacob W. Cagle (1832–1910) for capitalist Charles Henry Lanneau II (1834-1913).

Lanneau-Norwood House
Lanneau-Norwood House (2015)
Location417 Belmont Ave., Greenville, South Carolina
Coordinates34°49′58″N 82°23′34″W
Area1.4 acres (0.57 ha)
Builtc. 1877 (1877)
MPSGreenville MRA
NRHP reference No.82003860[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 1, 1982

After the Civil War, Lanneau, a veteran of Hampton's Legion, first worked as a bookkeeper for Camperdown Mill and then in 1882 organized Huguenot Mill, one of the first steam-powered textile mills in Upstate South Carolina. Perhaps with money inherited by his first wife, Lanneau was able to build a fashionable and unusually grand residence for contemporary Greenville. After a major fire in 1883, Lanneau rebuilt the house, which burned again in the 1890s.[2]

Bankrupt by 1907, Lanneau sold the house to banker and textile financier John Wilkins Norwood, a relative by marriage. Norwood added plumbing, electricity, and a coal furnace and furnished it with drapes, tapestries, and furniture suggested by decorators from Wanamaker's in New York.[3] At Norwood's death in 1945, the house passed to his son-in-law and daughter, Claud Sapp and Frances Norwood Funderburk, and then to their son and daughter-in-law George Norwood and Ann Downen Funderburk, who took special interest in the gardens.[4]

The house is a 2 1/2-story, brick Second Empire-style mansion with a Mansard roof. The front façade features a central pavilion, projecting corner pavilions, and an octagonal tower that extends 1 1/2-stories above the cornice line of the main block of the house, which includes a one-story, full-width front porch with slender posts and scrolled brackets. Also on the property are a brick garage, a small greenhouse, and a two-room, one-story brick servants' quarters with a gable roof.[5][6]

The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1] In 1977 a granddaughter of J. W. Norwood commissioned a dollhouse replica on a 1:12 scale.[7]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Judith Bainbridge, "Charles Lanneau was a risk-taking adventurer," Greenville News, July 9, 2008, City People, 2-3; Margaret Dial Norwood, "Home of the Late J. W. Norwood," South Carolina Room, Hughes Library, Greenville, SC; Huguenot Mill, National Register Nomination.
  3. Lydia Dishman, "Success, Tragedy and Life on a Grand Scale," Greenville Magazine, March 2008, 50-51.
  4. Marian St. Clair, "Grand Revival," Greenville News, September 3, 2008, City People, 6. George Funderburk (d. 2013) was a lawyer and a commissioner of the S.C. Workers Compensation Commission who had also served as a legal aide to U.S. Representative James R. Mann, 1968-71. Funderburk obituary (accessed October 8, 2015).
  5. "Lanneau-Norwood House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. n.d. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  6. "Lanneau-Norwood House, Greenville County (417 Belmont Ave., Greenville)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  7. Wanda Lesley, "Miniature duplicates 'the best house there is," Greenville News, January 2, 1977, 8D. The model is currently in possession of the Children's Museum of the Upstate. Greenville News, January 2, 2014, accessed October 8, 2015.
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