| Richmond Plantation | |
| Nrhp Type: | hd |
| Nocat: | yes |
| Location: | Southeast of Cordesville, near Cordesville, South Carolina |
| Coordinates: | 33.0786°N -79.8594°W |
| Architect: | Clinton & Russell; Shaw, Richard Norman |
| Architecture: | Shavian Manorial Style |
| Added: | November 24, 1980 |
| Refnum: | 80003653 |
Richmond Plantation, also known as Girl Scout Plantation, is a national historic district located near Cordesville, Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was built about 1927, and includes a manor house and outbuildings constructed as a hunting lodge for George A. Ellis, a prominent New York financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co.
The manor house is a -story, asymmetrical brick building with a rectangular central mass, and two single story wings—an American interpretation of the Shavian Manor Style, defined by the neo-medieval work of the English architect Richard Norman Shaw. Also on the property are four outbuildings in the Shavian Manor Style: a carriage house, dog house, guest house, and gate house. Additional features of the property include a one-story log house, three one-story frame cabins, a cemetery, and archaeological remains of the original 18th and 19th century rice plantation. In 1963 the property was sold to the Low Country Girl Scout Council, who maintained it as a camp until 2011.[1] [2] [3] The property was sold, via absolute auction, to a private buyer in 2013 but remains under the terms of a conservation easement.[4] [5]
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.