Robertson, William, House
National Register Listing
Street Address:
CR 5, Pinopolis, SC (Berkeley County)
Alternate Name:
Wampee Plantation Summer House
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817708026
Description and Narrative:
(Wampee Plantation Summer House) The William Robertson House is a two-story frame house, sheathed in weatherboard, reputedly built ca. 1844. The house was one of the early planters’ retreats in the pineland village of Pinopolis. It is three bays wide with a hip roofed, one-story porch spanning the façade and wrapping around the right elevation. The main roof and the porch roof are covered with standing seam metal. Two exterior brick chimneys with corbeled caps rise at the ends of the building. The nine-over-nine windows support the antebellum dating of the building. It has wing additions on the left and rear elevations. The house is representative of the vernacular central-hall farmhouse or I-House type as adapted to the summer village of Pinopolis. With the decline of the planter classes after the war, many resort villages turned to commercial ventures for their livelihood, however this was not the case in Pinopolis. Preferring to preserve the quiet community atmosphere of their resort village, the residents of Pinopolis blocked several proposals that would have attracted development. This decision helped Pinopolis retain its integrity as a pineland village. Listed in the National Register August 19, 1982.
Period of Significance:
1844
Level of Significance:
State
Area of Significance:
Architecture
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
August 19 1982
