Facade	Left Oblique	Right Oblique	Right Elevation	Rear Elevation
Left Rear Oblique	Left Elevation	Main Entrance	Interior Main Entrance	Interior ca. 1855 Double Doors Rear Hall
Interior Parlor Fireplace Mantel	Interior Door Surround Detail	Interior First Floor Bedroom Fireplace Mantel	Interior Dining Room Fireplace Mantel	Interior Second Floor Balustrade
Foundation Uncut granite and hand-hewn beams	Outbuildings Overview	Outbuilding ca. 1850 Barn	Outbuilding ca. 1850 Barn Mortise and tenon joint	Outbuilding Dairy Barn
Outbuilding Farm Workshop	Outbuilding Large Barn Hay Feeding Racks	Outbuilding Small Barn	Gas Pump	Water Trough

The Oaks, inclusive of a ca. 1825 two-story wood-frame residence with significant additions and alterations ca. 1845, ca. 1855, ca. 1880, and ca. 1920, is significant architecturally as a Carolina I-House with both vernacular and high-style architectural elements conveying the changing needs and tastes of its owners for ninety-five years. Its original fabric and later additions and alterations are excellent illustrations of the evolution of a Carolina Piedmont farmhouse from the antebellum era until the first quarter of the twentieth century. The collection of main house and outbuildings is a significant surviving collection of resources illustrating the agricultural history of central western South Carolina from ca. 1825 until ca. 1950. The Oaks is also notable for its association with the Calhoun, Sims, Henderson, and Lumley families of Abbeville District (portion of which is now Greenwood County), South Carolina. Contributing resources include a small antebellum ca. 1850 storage building associated with the plantation and post-bellum farm, two large ca. 1920 cow/livestock barns, a ca. 1920 farm workshop, a ca. 1950 dairy barn, an early twentieth century livestock watering trough, and an early-to-mid twentieth century gasoline pump. Listed in the National Register December 17, 2010.

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