HOMESTEADS AND HOME PLACES

THE BOYNE - PRESSLEY  - SPIGNER MANSION
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina

Submitted by Fletcher Spigner

This elegant mansion on Gregg Street in Columbia, South Carolina, seen here about 1920, was owned by George Trezevant Pressley and his wife, Annie Gertrude Geddes.  George T. Pressley was born 28 March 1876 in Richland County, South Carolina.  He was the third child of David Asbury Pressley and Emma Louise Agnew.  George T. Pressley was a successful real estate broker in the Columbia area. He and his wife had no children and in 1959 when his wife, Annie Geddes Pressley,  died, the house was willed to her niece, Henrietta Geddes Bailey and Henrietta's husband, Adolphus Fletcher Spigner, Jr. They are the parents of Fletcher Spigner, the submitter of this photo.

The Georgia Revival-style house, built in 1915 by Isabel Allworden Boyne,  has nine fireplaces, a camellia garden, a circular drive, and a large number of Palmetto tress, South Carolina's state tree. In 1937 Mrs. Boyne sold the house to George "Trez" Pressley.

In 1964 the house was conveyed by Mrs. A. Fletcher Spigner to the University of South Carolina, and is known on campus as the Spigner House.  It houses the Student Services offices and some other departmental offices.