Mayfair is a historic home located near Jenkinsville,

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. It was built about 1824, and is a two-story, weatherboarded

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style frame residence with a hipped roof. The front façade features a central, two-story, polygonal pedimented

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. According to local tradition, Mayfair was the home of Burrell B. Cook, a moderately wealthy planter, who served in the Twenty-eighth General Assembly of South Carolina from 1828 to 1829. It was added to the

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in 1985.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Federal architecture in South Carolina Houses completed in 1824 Houses in Fairfield County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, South Carolina {{FairfieldCountySC-NRHP-stub