Woodburn (Pendleton)

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Woodburn in 2009

Woodburn or Woodburn Plantation is a house in the antebellum near Pendleton in Anderson County , South Carolina , United States . It's on History Lane just south of US Highway 76 . It was built by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney as a summer home. Woodburn was entered on the National Register of Historic Places on May 6, 1970 . It is Contributing Property of the Pendleton Historic District, also on the register .

history

Although there is some evidence that Woodburn could have been built in the early 19th century, it is believed that the building was constructed by Charles Coteworth Pinckney around 1830. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1789-1865) was the son of Thomas Pinckney and was named after his uncle Charles Cotesworth Pinckney , a delegate in the Constitutional Convention . The younger Pinckney was Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 1832 to 1834.

A brother of Charles, Thomas Pinckney, built his Altamont summer home in Pendleton. This house no longer exists. Charles Pinckney purchased land near Pendleton in 1828 and built Woodburn around 1830.

He sold the house to David S. Taylor in 1852, who in turn sold it to John Bailey Adger. Adger was a Presbyterian missionary in Smyrna and Constantinople . In 1858 he sold it to his brother Joseph E. Adger, from whom Augustine T. Smythe acquired it in 1881 in order to develop it into a model company for breeding pure-bred cattle and racehorses.

William Frederick Calhoun Owen became the owner of the land in 1911, but lost it in 1930 because he could no longer pay the interest. It was later owned by John Frank, then by the United States Federal Government, and finally by Clemson College . The Pendleton Historic Foundation now owns the property.

The African-American social worker Jane Edna Hunter was born in 1882 on the plantation, where her parents were sharecroppers. She was later founder of Phillis Wheatley Association in Cleveland after the poet Phillis Wheatley from the time of the American Revolution was named.

Woodburn is now a museum run by the Pendleton Historic Foundation that can be visited on the weekends between April and October. Eighteen furnished rooms on three floors are accessible for viewing. The Pendleton District Agricultural Museum is right next door.

architecture

The original house was built around 1830 and expanded in 1850. A terrace on the roof of the house was removed in the 20th century.

The building is a two-and-a-half-storey timber frame construction on a raised base with a basement. It was clad in clapboard . The type of house corresponds to the construction method customary in Charleston, with which the builders took advantage of the summer breeze. The veranda is laid out over two floors and encloses three sides of the house. Two pairs of stairs lead up from the ground floor. You can enter one of the salons through French doors . On some of the windows, the panels underneath can be folded away to allow access to the veranda.

The rooms have high ceilings. Most of the interior walls are clad with about 25 cm wide, horizontally attached wooden planks. In the basement there is a kitchen and a dining room, which is relatively cool on hot summer days.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Baldwin: Carolina Plantations. The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina 2007, pp. 154–157 ( books.google.com , English)
  2. ↑ National Register Information System (March 13, 2009)
  3. ↑ a b Woodburn, Anderson County (Woodburn Rd., Pendleton vicinity) ( English ) In: National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 26, 2009.
  4. ↑ a b c Ben Hornsby: Woodburn ( English , PDF; 315 kB) In: National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form . National Park Service. October 15, 1970. Retrieved June 26, 2009.
  5. ↑ Mrs. James W. Fant: Pendleton Historical District ( English , PDF; 1.5 MB) In: National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form . National Park Service. June 2, 1970. Retrieved June 26, 2009.
  6. ^ Pendleton Historic District: A Survey. Pendleton District Historical and Recreational Commission, Pendleton, South Carolina 1973, pp. 53–55, ( books.google.com , English)
  7. ^ A b c Paul M. Franklin, Nancy Mikula: South Carolina's Plantations & Historic Homes. Voyageur Press, 2006, ISBN 0-7603-2540-5 , pp. 124–127, url = ( books.google.com )
  8. ↑ a b c d Woodburn, c. 1830 ( English ) In: History . Pendleton Historic Foundation. Archived from the original on May 28, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2009.
  9. ^ Hunter, Jane Edna (Harris) ( English ) In: Encyclopedia of Cleveland History . Case Western Reserve University and the Western Reserve Historical Society. Retrieved June 26, 2009.
  10. ^ Walter Edgar, The Humanities Council SC : South Carolina Encyclopedia. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina 2006, ISBN 1-57003-598-9 , pp. 467-468, ( books.google.com , English)
  11. ^ A b c Hurley E. Badders: Remembering South Carolina's Old Pendleton District. The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina 2006, ISBN 1-59629-197-4 , pp. 39–41, 65 ( books.google.com , English)
  12. ↑ a b Woodburn Plantation ( English ) In: Attractions and Museums . Pendleton District Commission. Archived from the original on June 7, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2009.
  13. ↑ Sylvia Higginbotham: Marvelous Mansions. John F. Blair, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 2000, ISBN 0-89587-227-7 , pp. 169-176. ( books.google.com , English).
  14. ↑ a b c Druscilla J. Null: Woodburn ( English ) In: Architectural Data Form . National Park Service. July 9, 1984. Archived from the original on December 12, 2012. Retrieved June 26, 2009.

Coordinates: 34 ° 38 ′ 27 ″  N , 82 ° 47 ′ 46 ″  W.