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| Gothic Ice House, Botany Bay Plantation, Edisto, S.C. |
There aren't many buildings left on the
Botany Bay Plantation site but how adorable is this one left standing? This was the old ice house.
It is estimated that the Ice House was built in the
1840s. There was a garden that surrounded the ice and smoke houses which
was designed by an Asian Botanist named Oqui who John Townsend brought
from Washington, DC to create his garden. It is believed that the white
poppies surrounding the building today are remnants of the once
elaborate garden.
The Smoke House is the only other extant building from the plantation
and it is a tabby Greek Revival building.The Ice House is a small building with distinctive Gothic Revival trim, a
steeply pitched dormer and Gothic arched shuttered windows.
The other little building is the tabby gardener's shed. I found a sweet water color of the shed found
here by Gary Nemcosky.
There was a garden that surrounded the ice and smoke houses which
was designed by an Asian Botanist named Oqui who John Townsend brought
from Washington, DC to create his garden. It is believed that the white
poppies surrounding the building today are remnants of the once
elaborate garden.
The Smoke House is the only other extant building from the plantation
and it is a tabby Greek Revival building.
That little ice house is wonderful, Joan. Thanks for discovering it for us.
ReplyDeleteI have decided to move in. Knock if you drop by!
ReplyDeleteIt is quite pretty!
ReplyDeleteLovely photos from Edisto, a singular place. As Nick Lindsay quotes Bubberson Brown in _And I'm Glad: An Oral History of Edisto Island_ ""This is better, home here. Me and my wife been together all these years now, sixty years. Long water run out me eye how thankful the Lord been to me! I sleep so good here, the world turn over." (p 169) If you get the chance to meet or hear Nick, you should do it. He's a hoot.
ReplyDeleteWas the ice house really for the storage of ice?
ReplyDeleteMy grammy had a smoke house in North Carolina, but it was nothing as fancy as these! And her "ice house" was built over a branch (stream) so they could set their crocks of milk down in the cold water to keep fresh. The only ice in the ice house was between November and March - ha!
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