William Seabrook House

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William Seabrook House 1978

The William Seabrook House or Seabrook for short or Dodge Plantation is a house built around 1810 on Edisto Island in South Carolina , United States , southwest of Charleston on the Steamboat Landing Road Extension (South Carolina State Highway 10-768) near the Steamboat Creeks. It was inscribed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 6, 1971 .

history

William Seabrook was a planter of Gossypium barbadense and co-owner of the Edisto Island Ferry, which also owned the steamship W. Seabrook . The house was built around 1810. The owner's initials are part of the ironwork on the front stairs. According to tradition, the house was designed by James Hoban , who also designed the White House .

William Seabrook died around 1837. His widow lived there until 1854 or 1855. Then J. Evans Eddings bought it. At the end of the Civil War , the Sea Islands below Charleston were ceded to the Union Army . The property was used by them as headquarters for the staff and as a military court building. After the end of the war, temporarily released slaves sought refuge here. It was sold around 1875 and later renovated by one of the subsequent owners.

architecture

The floor plan of the house corresponds to the classic blueprint of many other houses on Edisto Island of that time. It was built in the Early Republic or Federal Style , the two and a half floors in timber frame construction stand on a raised foundation. The gable roof is interspersed with dormers . A double portico has a cornice and a semicircular lunette , columns and a curved pediment. Double stairs lead to the first floor of the portico. The entrance door is framed by side windows and a semicircular skylight . The windows on the first and second floors are openable lattice windows with two nine fields. Originally the house had four rooms on the first floor, separated from each other by the central hall. It extends to the smaller portico to the garden. There a double staircase leads to the second floor to a landing on the portico.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Seabrook House ( English ) In: South Carolina Plantations . SCI-way.net. Retrieved May 29, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Nancy R. Ruhf: William Seabrook House ( English , PDF; 263 kB) In: National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form . National Park Service. December 10, 1971. Retrieved May 29, 2009.
  3. ↑ National Register Information System ( English ) In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
  4. ^ William Seabrook House, Charleston County (off SC Hwy. 174, Edisto Island) ( English ) In: National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved May 29, 2009.
  5. ^ A b c d 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 0486260895 , Pp. 45, 78-79, 215-216.
  6. ↑ Life and Work in Charleston, South Carolina ( English ) In: James Hoban: Architect of the White House . White House. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  7. ↑ a b Harriette Kershaw Leiding: Historic houses of South Carolina ( English ). JB Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1921, pp. 217-218.

Coordinates: 32 ° 36 ′ 6 ″  N , 80 ° 16 ′ 53 ″  W.