The Cureton House, built circa 1840 in the rural Waxhaws region near Lancaster, is a well-preserved example of an upcountry South Carolina vernacular Greek Revival residence. The two-story, L-shaped frame house is sheathed in clapboard siding and rests on a brick-pier foundation beneath a cross-gable roof. Its central-hall plan includes two rooms in the rear ell, while the restrained exterior reflects the practical character of rural residential architecture of the period. Particularly notable are the house’s six mantels, whose designs are exact copies or adaptations of plates published in Asher Benjamin’s The Architect, or Practical House Carpenter of 1830, demonstrating the influence of architectural pattern books on rural construction.

The property was associated with Jeremiah Cureton and his son William Jackson Cureton and functioned primarily as a cotton-producing farm, with smaller quantities of wheat, Indian corn, and oats also cultivated. Later agricultural features, including a circa 1918 cotton storage shed and circa 1930 barn and garage, document the property’s continued agricultural use into the twentieth century and changing farming practices in Lancaster County. The Cureton House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 for its architectural significance and as an important surviving example of nineteenth-century vernacular Greek Revival design in the South Carolina upcountry.