Fenwick Hall

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Fenwick Hall

Fenwick Hall or Fenwick Castle is a house built around 1730 on Johns Island on the Stono River across from James Island and Charleston between River Road and Penneys Creek. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1972 .

history

John Fenwick was a brother of Robert Fenwick and came from a family of the low nobility in England. He acquired the plantation on the Stono River around 1721. In 1730 he built the middle, rectangular part of the house.

His son Edward Fenwick inherited the plantation around 1750. He built the coach house to the west of it and a stable to the east of the house. He imported and bred English thoroughbreds and built a five-kilometer racetrack under what is now the Maybank Highway. At that time the plantation was called John's Island Stud . Because Fenwick was known as Tory , the property was confiscated during the American Revolutionary War . Part of it was restituted by the government in 1785 .

In 1787 the plantation was sold to Fenwick's cousin John Gibbes. It was around this time that the octagonal side wing was added. Daniel J. Townsend bought it in 1840; it remained in the property of his family until 1876.

The house was in ruins in 1930. It was renovated by Victor Morawetz and his wife with the help of architects Simons and Lapham from Charleston. In 1943 it was sold by Marjorie Morawetz. From the late 1970s, the owners tried to sell the building and the plantation area as a whole. Since this did not succeed, the property was divided into individual parcels. In 1980 it was finally sold and a private clinic for the care of alcohol and drug addicts was set up in the building. This existed until 1995. The building is now privately owned and cannot be visited.

architecture

The two-story brick building in the Georgian style stands on a raised foundation. The original part of the house is about 12 long and 11 m wide. A roof terrace with a balustrade sits on the gable roof . The masonry was laid in the Flemish network. The lattice windows with nine fields on the south side can be pushed open, the shutters have meanwhile been replaced.

This rectangular part of the building runs over five bays and has a Huguenot floor plan. The entrance on the south facade enables access to a lounge. On the other side is a slightly smaller salon. The central hall leads to the stairs at the back. The rear rooms are on either side of the stairwell. There is also an entrance to a salon in the northwest corner of the octagonal extension from 1787. This measures 15.25 m in length and 5.5 m in width and comprises two rooms separated by a staircase.

View of the coach house

The drawing room is plastered and papered. The other rooms on the ground floor are paneled with wood . On the upper floor there are seven bedrooms, the four of which in the original part of the building are also paneled with wood.

When the building was being renovated in 1931, the client added a porch to the east and a small two-story wing to the west that housed a kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. A simpler entrance with a cornice and two recessed Doric columns that replaced a portico added in 1787.

A pre-renovation watercolor view of Fenwick Hall is in the Greenville County Museum of Art.

The two-story coach house to the west of the main house has been converted into a garage. The similar style stable no longer exists.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fenwick Hall ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved May 29, 2009.
  2. ↑ Harriette Kershaw Leiding: Historic houses of South Carolina ( English ). JB Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1921, pp. 209-213.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Mary Schuette: Fenwick Hall ( English , PDF; 381 kB) In: National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form . National Park Service. December 10, 1971. Retrieved May 29, 2009.
  4. ↑ Fenwick Hall, Charleston County (US Hwy. 17, John's Island) ( English ) In: National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved May 29, 2009.
  5. ↑ Fenwick Hall ( English ) In: South Carolina Plantations . SCI-way.net. Retrieved May 29, 2009.
  6. ^ A b c Samuel Gaillard Stoney, Simons, A., and Lapham, Samuel, Jr .: Plantations of the Carolina Low Country ( English ), 7th edition, Courier Dover Publications, Mineola, New York 1989, ISBN 0-486 -26089-5 , pp. 49-51, 124-137.
  7. ^ A b George C. Rogers: Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys ( English ). University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina 1984, ISBN 0-87249-297-4 , p. 114.
  8. ↑ Federal Writers' Program of the Works Progress Administration : South Carolina: A Guide to the Palmetto State ( English ). Oxford University Press, New York 1941, p. 284.
  9. ↑ Connie Walpole Haynie: John's Island ( English ). Arcadia Publishing, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina 2007, ISBN 0-7385-4346-2 , pp. 11-13.
  10. ↑ Courier and Post (English) . In: Good Morning Lowcounty: Sport of Kings , Evening Post Publishing Company, May 1, 2007. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011 Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / v1.charleston.net 
  11. ^ Harrison Fairfax: The John's Island stud (South Carolina), 1750–1788 ( English ). Old Dominion Press, 1931.
  12. ^ A b Walter Edgar, The Humanities Council SC : South Carolina Encyclopedia ( English ). University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina 2006, ISBN 1-57003-598-9 , pp. 320-321.
  13. ↑ fenwickhall.com
  14. ↑ James M. Hutchisson, Greene, Harlan: Renaissance in Charleston ( English ). University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia 2003, ISBN 0-8203-2518-X , p. 49.

Coordinates: 32 ° 45 ′ 3 ″  N , 80 ° 2 ′ 20 ″  W.