National Register of Historic Places

Richmond Plantation

Cordesville, Berkeley County, South Carolina
Listed
November 24, 1980
Type
District
Period
Listed
Ref No.
80003653

About this property

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. The property was sold, via absolute auction, to a private buyer in 2013 but remains under the terms of a conservation easement. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Location

Cordesville, Berkeley County, South Carolina
33.08011, -79.85880

Categories

AGRICULTUREHISTORIC - NON-ABORIGINALARCHITECTURESOCIAL HISTORY
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Sources

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When was Richmond Plantation listed on the National Register?

Richmond Plantation was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 24, 1980.

What type of historic resource is Richmond Plantation?

Richmond Plantation is classified as a district in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Richmond Plantation is recorded as the listed era.

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