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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.
