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Photographer: Brian Scott
Taken: February 3, 2009
Caption: Smith-Visanska House (1882)
405 (former 307) North Main Street
Additional Description: Twenty-seventh Site on the Historic Sites of Abbeville Tour Often called Mr. Visanska's Castle, it was designed in a modified Steamboat Gothic style and is now missing the widow's walk on the roof top. (Source: Historic Sites Tour of Abbeville County by the Abbeville Visitors Council (2010), pg 13.) This house once belonged to one of Abbeville's prominent Jewish families, G.A. Visanska. G.A. Visanska and Philip Rosenberg became partners in 1877, and their business interests prospered in the 1880s.
Submitted: June 20, 2011, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p157996
File Size: 0.096 Megabytes

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