Dove Dale
National Register Listing
Street Address:
Address Restricted Darlington, SC (Darlington County)
Alternate Name:
Archibald Dove House; Daniel Dove House; Grover Bryant House
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817716051
Description and Narrative:
Dove Dale is significant for its association with the establishment, growth, and development of the Dovesville community from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the first quarter of the twentieth century, and for its long association with six generations of the Dove family, for whom Dovesville is named. It is also an excellent and relatively intact example of an early nineteenth century plantation farmhouse with later nineteenth and early twentieth century alterations. It retains a significant percentage of its historic floor plan and other historic materials, architectural elements and other character-defining features. This one-and-one-half-story frame double-pile, spraddle-roofed house, built according to family and local tradition as early as ca. 1805, exhibits architecture typical of moderate plantation farmhouses built in the tidewater and coastal plain of the Carolinas in the early nineteenth century. The house features a front porch with six slightly tapered, solid wood piers, four brick chimneys, twenty-eight windows, and three exterior doors. The long shed-roofed dormer on the front roof slope and the porch piers are thought to date from some time before 1898. The double-leaf, two-paneled front door has sidelights and a transom, as does its matching double-leaf rear door at the opposite end of the long central hall. The rear door once accessed an inset or in antis porch. None of the original outbuildings survive. A small fish pond is an early landscape feature of the front lawn. The agricultural fields that provide setting for the house, yard and grove extend to the north, east and south. These fields have continued under cultivation for two hundred years. Listed in the National Register February 22, 2007.
Period of Significance:
circa 1805 – 1930;circa 1805;circa 1850;1882;1886;1916;1929
Level of Significance:
Local
Area of Significance:
Architecture;Exploration/Settlement
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
February 22 2007
