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The Zeno Hicks House, also known as the McKinney-Hicks Homeplace, is a historic home and 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 ...
near
Chesnee, South Carolina Chesnee is a city in Spartanburg and Cherokee counties, in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The population was 868 as of the 2010 census. History In the early 20th century, the Chesnee Land Company bought a sizeable acreage at what is now Che ...
. The district encompasses one contributing building and one contributing structure. The house, built in 1886, is a two-story rectangular frame
I-house The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was so named in the 1930s by Fred Kniffen, a cultural geographer at Louisiana State University who was a specialist in folk archit ...
built of weatherboard and hand sawn from heart pine. The house has a one-story rear addition and a one-story porch with shed roof, and extends around the façade. The property also includes a
corn crib A corn crib or corncrib is a type of granary used to dry and store corn. It may also be known as a cornhouse or corn house. Overview After the harvest and while still on the cob, corn is placed in the crib either with or without the husk. The ...
. It is associated with Zeno Hicks, a prominent local folk doctor and musician of
Cherokee County Cherokee County is the name of eight counties in the United States: * Cherokee County, Alabama * Cherokee County, Georgia * Cherokee County, Iowa * Cherokee County, Kansas * Cherokee County, North Carolina * Cherokee County, Oklahoma * Cherokee Co ...
. It was listed on the
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 1989.


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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 Houses completed in 1887 Houses in Cherokee County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Cherokee County, South Carolina {{CherokeeCountySC-NRHP-stub