Seclusaval and Windsor Spring

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Seclusaval and Windsor Spring
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Seclusaval, a Sand Hills-type cottage
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LocationJunction of Windsor Spring Road and Tobacco Road, Augusta, Georgia
Coordinates 33°23′5″N82°4′21″W / 33.38472°N 82.07250°W / 33.38472; -82.07250 Coordinates: 33°23′5″N82°4′21″W / 33.38472°N 82.07250°W / 33.38472; -82.07250
Built1843
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP reference No. 87001331 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 11, 1988

Seclusaval and Windsor Spring is a historic property in Richmond County, Georgia that includes a Greek Revival building built in 1843. [2]

It was deemed notable historically in several ways:

It is also significant for the architecture of the main house on the property, Seclusaval, which is a "Sand Hills-type cottage". Sand Hills-type cottage architecture is a local, modified form of Greek Revival architecture. The form has symmetry, wide entablatures, and classic columns of the Greek Revival style. And the front doorway of the house has a rectangular transom with side lights, also consistent with Greek Revival style. But it also has a "one-story, high-pitched side gable roof, three gable dormers, and a full-facade porch" that characterize the Sand Hills variation. Seclusaval is "an excellent example" of this type. [2]

The property has eight contributing buildings and two other contributing structures (a spring house and a pavilion). The buildings are the main house, a slave cabin, a playhouse, a well house, a privy, a pantry, a smoke house, and a barn. [2]

The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr. (August 11, 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Seclusaval and Windsor Spring". National Park Service . Retrieved August 8, 2016. with 19 photos from 1986