Architectural style Shavian Manorial Style Area 62 ha Added to NRHP 24 November 1980 | NRHP Reference # 80003653 Year built 1927 | |
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Location Southeast of Cordesville, near Cordesville, South Carolina Architect Clinton & Russell; Shaw, Richard Norman | ||
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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.