St. Julien Plantation
National Register Listing
Street Address:
SC 6, Eutawville, SC city vicinity (Orangeburg County)
NRHP Nomination
Record Number:
S10817738006
Description and Narrative:
St. Julien Plantation is a significant nineteenth century plantation complex, with the main house, major outbuildings, and oak allee intact. Reputed to have been constructed ca. 1854 on land originally granted to Joseph de St. Julien in 1737, St. Julien Plantation was the home of Julius Theodore Porcher (1829-1863), a member of a prominent French Huguenot family of St. John’s Berkeley Parish. The 1860 South Carolina Slave Schedule lists Porcher as owning 121 slaves. In addition to operating a prosperous plantation and being active in community affairs, Porcher served in the Confederate army. The plantation house is significant architecturally for its design which reflects the Italianate influence on the vernacular farmhouses of the mid-nineteenth century. It features an L-shaped, two-story plan, with a one-story porch in the crook of the L, and a low-pitched hipped roof with projecting eaves and a bracketed cornice. Also notable are several remaining original outbuildings including a board and batten kitchen, a log cotton warehouse, a Carpenter Gothic mule barn, a smokehouse, garage, storage building, and several wood frame farm buildings of undetermined age. Approximately fifty-nine acres of the 1,027 acre farm are a part of the National Register site, including the garden behind the house that contains several large Camellia japonicas that are believed to be among the oldest in the Lowcountry, and a moss-draped live oak allee, the original approach to the house from the old River Road. Listed in the National Register November 28, 1980.
Period of Significance:
circa 1854
Level of Significance:
Local
Area of Significance:
Architecture;Other
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
November 28 1980
