William Dunlap Simpson House is a historic home located at Laurens,

Laurens County, South Carolina Laurens County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 67,539. Its county seat is Laurens. Laurens County is included in the Greenville-Anderson- Mauldin, SC Metropolitan Statistical ...

, USA. It was built about 1839 for a planter to use as his town house. The three-story, three bay,

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

style clapboard dwelling has a total of twelve rooms. It was later the home of Congressman and South Carolina Governor

William Dunlap Simpson William Dunlap Simpson (October 27, 1823December 26, 1890) was the 78th governor of South Carolina from February 26, 1879, when the previous governor, Wade Hampton, resigned to take his seat in the U.S. Senate, until 1880. That year Simpson res ...

(1823-1890).<- br> It was added to the

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in 1974. It is located in the Laurens Historic District.

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