About Hattie J. Peeples House
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Hattie J. Peeples House is a historic home located at Varnville, Hampton County, South Carolina. It was built between 1889 and 1893, and is an L-shaped, two-story, five-bay, Italianate-style dwelling. It has a gable roof and weatherboard siding. It features a projecting pavilion, encircling porch, and textured wall surfaces in the Queen Anne style. Also on the property are a frame and weatherboard butler’s quarters (1885); and a brick building built to replace an earlier frame structure destroyed by a fire in 1917. This building served as a post office from the time of its construction about 1920 until 1964. Hattie J. Peeples served for more than 30 years as postmistress.