Middleton Place Plantation Charleston South Carolina
by Sharon McConnell
Title
Middleton Place Plantation Charleston South Carolina
Artist
Sharon McConnell
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art, Photography
Description
A National Historic Landmark, home to the oldest landscaped gardens in America and an enduring, vibrant, and essential part of the Charleston and American experience, Middleton Place is owned and operated by the Middleton Place Foundation.
Middleton Place’s 110 vibrant acres in the Low Country of Charleston, South Carolina, include 65 acres of America’s oldest landscaped gardens – floral allées, terraced lawns, a pair of ornamental lakes shaped like butterfly wings – as well as a House Museum, Eliza’s House, working Stableyards with artisans and heritage breed animals, a Restaurant, Inn, and Organic Farm.
The historic preservation work and interpretation of history at Middleton Place focuses on major contributions of the Middleton family as well as the African Americans who lived and worked there. From the early Colonial period through the Revolution, the early Republic, the Civil War era and beyond, they made a mark on the land, the colony, state and nation.
The South Flanker, today's House Museum, was built in 1755 as gentlemen's guest quarters and a business office. Together with the North Flanker – a library, musical conservatory and art gallery – it completed Henry Middleton's overall grand design. The South Flanker is a surviving portion of the three-building residential complex that once stood overlooking the Ashley River, in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Both flankers, along with the main house, were burned by Union troops in February, 1865, just two months before the end of the Civil War. The South Flanker was the least damaged of the three buildings and repairs to it began in 1869 and included a new roof, Dutch gable ends and an entry hall leading from the Greensward. Thus strengthened, the South Flanker survived Charleston's Great Earthquake in 1886 that brought down the gutted walls of the other residential buildings. By 1870 the Middletons had returned to live again at Middleton Place and the South Flanker continued to serve subsequent generations until becoming a House Museum in 1975.
Copyright 2019 Sharon McConnell; all rights reserved.
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