Richmond Plantation
Richmond Plantation | |
Location | Southeast of Cordesville, near Cordesville, South Carolina |
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Coordinates | 33°04′43″N 79°51′34″W / 33.07861°N 79.85944°W |
Area | 152.4 acres (61.7 ha) |
Built | 1927 |
Architect | Clinton & Russell; Shaw, Richard Norman |
Architectural style | Shavian Manorial Style |
NRHP reference No. | 80003653[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 24, 1980 |
Richmond Plantation, also known as Girl Scout Plantation, is a national historic district located near Cordesville, Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was built about 1927, and includes a manor house and outbuildings constructed as a hunting lodge for George A. Ellis, a prominent New York financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co.
The manor house is a 1+1⁄2-story, asymmetrical brick building with a rectangular central mass, and two single story wings—an American interpretation of the Shavian Manor Style, defined by the neo-medieval work of the English architect Richard Norman Shaw. Also on the property are four outbuildings in the Shavian Manor Style: a carriage house, dog house, guest house, and gate house. Additional features of the property include a one-story log house, three one-story frame cabins, a cemetery, and archaeological remains of the original 18th and 19th century rice plantation. In 1963 the property was sold to the Low Country Girl Scout Council, who maintained it as a camp until 2011.[2][3][4] The property was sold, via absolute auction, to a private buyer in 2013 but remains under the terms of a conservation easement.[5][6]
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Richmond Plantation, Berkeley County (S.C. Sec. Rd. 402, Cordesville vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
- ^ Betty Morgan (July 1980). "Richmond Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
- ^ "Scouts' U.S. plantation sale nets $2.2 million for cash-strapped group". Reuters. July 26, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
- ^ "Girl Scouts' camp to be sold at auction". July 3, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
- ^ "auction flyer". July 26, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
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