Lang Syne Plantation
National Register Listing
Street Address:
RESTRICTED; (Calhoun County)
NRHP Nomination - Redacted
Record Number:
S10817709017
Description and Narrative:
Lang Syne Plantation is significant in literature for its association with the well-known southern novelist of the 1920s and 1930s, Julia Mood Peterkin. Lang Syne Plantation inspired Peterkin, a little-known South Carolina writer of fiction, to author several novels about African American life on the plantation. Scarlet Sister Mary, Peterkin’s 1928 novel based on her own experiences at the plantation, achieved national recognition when it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1929. She was not only the first southern writer to be awarded a Pulitzer for fiction, but was recognized as the first southern writer to present a psychologically complex portrait of African Americans in the early twentieth century Jim Crow South. From a literary standpoint, the historic resources at Lang Syne reflect Peterkin's time in residence from 1903-1961. Lang Syne Plantation is also architecturally significant. The Main House, designed for William G. Peterkin and Julia Mood Peterkin in 1915 by the prominent and prolific Columbia architect George Eugene Lafaye, to replace an earlier plantation house echoes an antebellum plantation manor yet incorporates modern details, amenities and functionality of the early twentieth century. The other fourteen contributing rural vernacular ancillary buildings at Lang Syne are also significant for their reflection of agricultural building practices and rural life in South Carolina from before the Civil War to the mid-twentieth century. Listed in the National Register July 18, 2014.
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Period of Significance:
circa 1834 – 1961;1883;1915;1929
Level of Significance:
State
Area of Significance:
Architecture;Literature
National Register Determination:
listed
Date of Certification:
July 18 2014