Gravel Hill Plantation
National Register Listing
Street Address:
3954 Augusta Stage Coach Road, Hampton, SC (Hampton County)
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817725011
Description and Narrative:
Gravel Hill Plantation is architecturally significant as a rare and fully-realized example in South Carolina of the Adirondack or Rustic Style and the only known extant design south of the state of New York by architect Robert Palmer Huntington. The plantation is also historically significant as an example of the hunting plantation phenomenon in the South Carolina lowcountry from the end of the Civil War to World War II, in which wealthy Northerners acquired, and in many cases consolidated, historic plantations to create large recreational preserves and seasonal residences. Gravel Hill Plantation is the twenty-acre core of a large hunting plantation that includes eleven historic buildings, nine of them designed and built ca. 1910 by the owner, Robert Palmer Huntington. The complex includes three residential buildings, a kitchen and dining facility, ice house, stables and ancillary service buildings. Two additional historic buildings, a corncrib and a tenant’s house, are vernacular in construction and presumably date from the months in 1909-10 when this complex was being planned and built by Huntington. Listed in the National Register May 10, 2010.
Period of Significance:
circa 1910
Level of Significance:
Local
Area of Significance:
Architecture
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
May 10 2010
