Belfair Manager's House

Historic Property

Alternate Name:

[unknown]

Street Address:

Belfair Oaks Blvd.;(Beaufort County)

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Site Number:

487-057

Control Number:

U/13/487-057

Tax Number:

R600 023 00B 0048 0000

Date Surveyed:

June 3 1997

Category:

Building

Construction Date:

circa 1927

Alteration Date:

circa 1955

Historic Use:

Residential/Domestic

Current Use:

Commerce/Trade

Historic Core Shape:

Rectangular

Number of Stories:

1

Construction Method:

frame

Exterior Walls Materials:

Weatherboard

Foundation Materials:

Brick Piers

Roof Shape:

gable (lateral)

Roof Materials:

composition shingle

Alterations:

Moved to site from location of former Belfair House, near Colleton River.

Historical Information:

Employee's house for Belfair Plantation, bought by W. Moseley Swain 1927 as winter retreat. He built two-story "plantation" style house and planted oak avenue (Site #4870261). This house was part of the Swain House complex, then moved ca. 1955 to its p

Source of Historical Information:

M. Virginia Markham, "Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed Belfair Plantation Tract, Beaufort County, South Carolina" (Brockington & Associates, Inc., 1994). Interview, Ed Blakeley, Belfair Development Co., 6/3/97.

Quadrangle Name:

spring_island

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