Gippy Plantation is a historic plantation house located at 366 Avenue of Oaks, near Moncks Corner in Berkeley County, South Carolina. The main house is a 2+1⁄2-story Greek Revival frame structure, with a four-column gabled pediment at the center of its main facade. The house was built by John Sims White, and was at the center of a plantation that was more than 1,800 acres (730 ha) in size. It received restoration and Colonial Revival features in the 1920s.[2]
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| Location | 366 Avenue of Oaks, near Moncks Corner, South Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 33°10′19″N 80°0′22″W / 33.17194°N 80.00611°W |
| Area | 4.8 acres (1.9 ha) |
| Built | 1850 |
| NRHP reference No. | 16000414[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 23, 2016 |
John Sims White bought the plantation in 1821 and built the current house after an earlier one burned.[3] Mr. White died from typhoid fever in 1865, and his wife remained at the house.[3] In 1895, J. St. Clair White sold Gippy to his cousin Samuel Gaillard Stoney of nearby Medway Plantation, and the plantation continued in active farming until 1910.[3]
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas G. Roosevelt bought the plantation in 1927 and made some alterations including replacing the earlier square columns with round columns.[4] After Mr. Roosevelt's death, a group of three businessmen purchased about 1200 acres of Gippy in 1972 for about $1 million with an eye toward added industrial uses along Highway 52.[3]
The plantation house was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.[1]
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editReferences
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Gippy Plantation". South Carolina SHPO. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
- ^ a b c d Stevens, Margaret (November 2, 1972). "Gippy Plantation Purchased". Charleston, South Carolina: News and Courier. p. 1B.
- ^ Stoney, Samuel G. (October 31, 1938). "Do You Know Your Charleston?". News and Courier. Charleston, South Carolina. p. 10.
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