William Seabrook House
The William Seabrook House or short Seabrook or the Dodge Plantation is a built circa 1810 house on Edisto Iceland in South Carolina, United States, southwest of Charleston at the Steamboat Landing Road Extension (South Carolina State Highway 10-768 ) near the Steamboat Creek. It was registered on 6 May 1971 in the National Register of Historic Places.
History
William Seabrook was a planter of Gossypium barbadense and co-owner of Edisto Iceland Ferry, to which the steamer W. Seabrook belonged. The house was built around 1810. The initials of the owner are part of the iron work on the front steps. According to tradition, the home of James Hoban was planned, who also designed the White House.
William Seabrook died around 1837. His widow lived until 1854 or 1855 in it. Then it was bought by J. Evans Eddings. At the end of the Civil War, the Sea Islands were given to the Union army below Charleston. The property was used by them as headquarters for the staff, and as a military courthouse. After the end of the war, studied here temporarily freed slaves refuge. Around 1875 it was sold and renovated later by one of the subsequent owners.
Architecture
The floor plan of the house corresponds to the classic blueprint of many other houses of the time on Edisto Iceland. It was built in the Early Republic or the Federal style, the two and a half built in timber frame construction floors are on a raised foundation. The gable roof is pierced with dormer windows. A double portico is equipped with cornice and half-round bezel, columns and a curved pediment. Double stairs lead to the first floor of the portico. The entrance door is flanked by side windows and a semicircular fanlight. The windows on the first and second floors are wind-up lattice windows with twice nine fields. Originally, the house had four rooms, which were separated from the central hall on the ground floor. It extends down to the lower portico to the garden. There, a double staircase to the second floor leads to a landing on the Portico.