Harrietta Plantation
|
Harrietta Plantation
|
|
.jpg)
North elevation of Harrietta Plantation in 1940
|
|
 
|
|
| Location | McClellanville, South Carolina |
|---|---|
| Nearest city | McClellanville, South Carolina |
| Coordinates | 33°10′10″N 79°23′37″W / 33.16944°N 79.39361°WCoordinates: 33°10′10″N 79°23′37″W / 33.16944°N 79.39361°W |
| Built | ca. 1807 |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| NRHP Reference # | 75001695 |
| Added to NRHP | September 18, 1975 |
Harrieta Plantation is a plantation about 5 mi (8 km) east of McClellanville in Charleston County, South Carolina. It is adjacent to the Wedge Plantation and just south of Fairfield Plantation. The plantation house was built around 1807. It is located off US Highway 17 near the Santee River. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1975.
The house at Harrietta Plantation was built by Mrs. Harriot Horry of the Hampton Plantation for her daughter, Harriott and her husband Frederick Rutledge. Mrs. Horry's son, Charles Lucas Pinckney Horry, married Elenore Marie Florimonde de Fay la Tour Maubourg. When Charles and Elemore decided to live elsewhere, Frederick and Harriot Rutledge lived at Hampton Plantation, and work on the Harrietta Plantation House stopped.
In 1858, the house was purchased by Stephen D. Doar. He finished the upper floors and was the first resident in the house. The Doar family owned the house until 1929. Rice was cultivated until 1903. When the house was sold in 1929, there were rooms in the house that had yet to be plastered.
In 1929, Mr. Doar sold the plantation to Mr. Horatio Shonnard of New York, who undertook a restoration of the house and its gardens. In March 1947, the 17-room plantation and its 1500 acres were sold by Mrs. Horatio Shonnard to Mrs. John P. Abney, the widow of the founder of an eponymous chain of cotton mills in the Piedmont section of South Carolina. The plantation had been listed for sale for $115,000 at that time.
The house is currently owned by the Harrietta Holdings, LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company.
The original house was constructed around 1807. This is a Georgian style, clapboard house on a raised basement. The first floor had two rooms with a rear hallway. Each of the rooms had a separate entrance door to the front porch. Because these doors were very close to each other, a false door was built between them. They were framed together to result in an architecturally pleasing facade. Both of these rooms have fireplaces with carved Federal mantels. The door frames and moldings are also in Federal style.
...
Wikipedia