Orange Grove Plantation
National Register Listing
Street Address:
Overlooking Wallace Creek, .25 mi. from SC 113, St. Helena Island, SC (Beaufort County)
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817707052
Description and Narrative:
Orange Grove Plantation illustrates the development of architectural styles and construction from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth century for its association with several periods of historic occupation at Orange Grove Plantation. The district is primarily significant for its association with an early twentieth century influx of Northerners onto St. Helena Island, who bought historic houses or built new houses as winter retreats. Henry Bowles, a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, purchased the plantation in 1928, which had been an antebellum home of the Fripp family. The plantation house, built ca. 1800, was in poor condition when Bowles bought the property; he demolished it and built the present house in 1928. Orange Grove was one of the first resort houses built on St. Helena after the opening of the bridge to Lady Island in 1927 and is illustrative of the early encroachment of development on South Carolina’s sea islands. The property also includes the tabby ruin of the kitchen, ca. 1800, and a tabby-walled cemetery containing three early nineteenth century graves of the Fripp and Perry families. Listed in the National Register May 26, 1989.
Period of Significance:
1800;1928;1928 – circa 1935
Level of Significance:
National
Area of Significance:
Architecture;Social History
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
May 26 1989
