Gippy Plantation

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Gippy Plantation
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Location366 Avenue of Oaks, near Moncks Corner, South Carolina
Coordinates 33°10′19″N80°0′22″W / 33.17194°N 80.00611°W / 33.17194; -80.00611 Coordinates: 33°10′19″N80°0′22″W / 33.17194°N 80.00611°W / 33.17194; -80.00611
Area4.8 acres (1.9 ha)
Built1850 (1850)
NRHP reference No. 16000414 [1]
Added to NRHPJune 23, 2016

Gippy Plantation is a historic plantation house located at 366 Avenue of Oaks, near Moncks Corner in Berkeley County, South Carolina. The main house is a 2+12-story Greek Revival frame structure, with a four-column gabled pediment at the center of its main facade. The house was built by John Sims White, and was at the center of a plantation that was more than 1,800 acres (730 ha) in size. It received restoration and Colonial Revival features in the 1920s. [2]

John Sims White bought the plantation in 1821 and built the current house after an earlier one burned. [3] Mr. White died from typhoid fever in 1865, and his wife remained at the house. [3] In 1895, J. St. Clair White sold Gippy to his cousin Samuel Gillard Stoney of nearby Medway Plantation, and the plantation continued in active farming until 1910. [3]

Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas G. Roosevelt bought the plantation in 1927 and made some alterations including replacing the earlier square columns with round columns. [4] After Mr. Roosevelt's death, a group of three businessmen purchased about 1200 acres of Gippy in 1972 for about $1 million with an eye toward added industrial uses along Highway 52. [3]

The plantation house was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Gippy Plantation". South Carolina SHPO. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Stevens, Margaret (November 2, 1972). "Gippy Plantation Purchased". Charleston, South Carolina: News and Courier. p. 1B.
  4. Stoney, Samuel G. (October 31, 1938). "Do You Know Your Charleston?". News and Courier. Charleston, South Carolina. p. 10.