Hampton-Preston House, Blanding Street, Columbia, SC : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Hampton-Preston House, Blanding Street, Columbia, SC / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1818, this Federal-style house was designed by Zachariah Philips and built by Robert Yates for Ainsley Hall, but was superseded by a larger, grander house across the street that Ainsley Hall had built in 1823. After Hall passed during the construction of the new house, the house was sold to Wade Hampton I, a wealthy cotton planter and General during the War of 1812, and passed after his death to his daughter, Caroline Hampton Preston, and her husband, John S. Preston, with Hampton’s son and grandson, Wade Hampton II and Wade Hampton III, both residing in the house at various times. The mansion was expanded in 1848-1850 with the addition of a rear wing, which doubled the size of the house, but was removed in a misguided restoration between 1969 and 1970. The house was commandeered by the United States Army during the Civil War in 1865, during the occupation of Columbia, and was used as the headquarters of Major General John A. Logan. During Reconstruction after the Civil War, the house served as the home of Governor Franklin J. Moses, and was later sold to Ellen Phelps Dodge. Dodge sold the house to an Ursuline Convent in 1888. In 1890, the house was sold by the Ursulines to The South Carolina Presbyterian Institute for Young Ladies, affiliated with the Columbia Theological Seminary across the street, which merged with Chicora College in 1915. The college, like many smaller religiously-affiliated institutions of higher learning across the south, suffered financial hardship during the Great Depression, and as a result, it merged with Queen’s College in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1933. During the time it was home to the college, the mansion was altered, and the outbuildings, including the slave dwellings that once stood on the property, were removed. The mansion then served as a boardinghouse, and saw several alterations, with the grounds being paved over for a parking lot. The mansion was purchased by the State of South Carolina in the 1960s, and restored to its circa 1818 appearance for the South Carolina Tricentennial Midlands Exposition Center, which also saw the removal of later buildings from the property, which were constructed for the college. The house features a stucco-clad exterior with quoins, a low-slope roof enclosed by a parapet, pediments with fanlight attic windows on the north and south facades, six-over-six, nine-over-six, twelve-over-nine, and three-over-three double-hung windows, doors at the central bays of the south facade with fanlight transoms and sidelights, a porch on the south facade with doric columns and metal railings and an arcade with arched openings at the base, a smaller north portico with paired doric columns, a pair of cast iron staircases, and a small arcade at the base, a sunken brick rear patio, which demarcates the outlines of the walls of the now-removed 1848-1850 addition, and a large landscaped yard with gardens that takes up the entire block around the house, which includes a modern greenhouse at the northwest corner of the property. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969, and is a contributing structure in Columbia Historic District II, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. The building since 1970 has served as historic house museum, with the grounds being open to the public, and the house being available for tours. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-11-25 12:11:54 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Allen Benedict Court, South Carolina, United States 地図 |