Matson Street Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located at Kershaw,

Lancaster County, South Carolina Lancaster County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 96,016, Its county seat is Lancaster, which has an urban population of 23,979. The county was created in 1785. Lancaster Coun ...

. It encompasses 26 contributing buildings in a residential section of Kershaw. The majority of the buildings date from about 1890 to 1940, a particularly significant period of development in Kershaw. The houses are in a variety of representative architectural styles include Victorian, Queen Anne,

Bungalow A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is either single-story or has a second story built into a sloping roof (usually with dormer windows), and may be surrounded by wide verandas. The first house in England that was classified as a b ...

American Craftsman American Craftsman is an American domestic architectural style, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, which included interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts, beginning in the last years of the 19th century. Its ...

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

, and Neo-Classical. Also located in the district is the First Presbyterian Church. an
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National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1990.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Victorian architecture in South Carolina Colonial Revival architecture in South Carolina Queen Anne architecture in South Carolina Neoclassical architecture in South Carolina Houses in Lancaster County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Lancaster County, South Carolina {{LancasterCountySC-NRHP-stub