Richmond Plantation

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Richmond Plantation
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LocationSoutheast of Cordesville, near Cordesville, South Carolina
Coordinates 33°04′43″N79°51′34″W / 33.07861°N 79.85944°W / 33.07861; -79.85944
Area152.4 acres (61.7 ha)
Built1927 (1927)
ArchitectClinton & Russell; Shaw, Richard Norman
Architectural styleShavian Manorial Style
NRHP reference No. 80003653 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 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+12-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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "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.
  3. Betty Morgan (July 1980). "Richmond Plantation" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
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