Woodburn (Pendleton, South Carolina)

Woodburn and Woodburn Plantation is a house dating from the Antebellum near Pendleton in Anderson County, South Carolina, United States. It is just south of U.S. Highway 76 on the History Lane It was built by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney as a summer home. Woodburn was registered on 6 May 1970 in the National Register of Historic Places. There is also a contributing property of the persons on the register Pendleton Historic District.

History

Although there are some indications that Woodburn could be built in the early years of the 19th century, it is believed that the building was built around 1830 by Charles Pinckney Coteworth. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1789-1865) was the son of Thomas Pinckney, and was named after his uncle, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. The younger Pinckney was Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 1832 to 1834.

A brother of Charles, Thomas Pinckney, built his summer home in Altamont Pendleton. This house no longer exists. Charles Pinckney in 1828 acquired land in Pendleton and was built in Woodburn to 1830.

He sold the house in 1852 to David S. Taylor, which he in turn sold to John Bailey Adger. Adger was a Presbyterian missionary in Smyrna and Constantinople Opel. He sold it in 1858 to his brother Joseph E. Adger, from which it acquired in 1881 Augustine T. Smythe in 1881, to develop it into a model operation for breeding of purebred cattle and race horses.

William Frederick Calhoun Owen in 1911 was owner of the land, but it lost in 1930 because he could no longer pay the interest. Later it came into the possession of John Frank, after the Federal Government of the United States and eventually it belonged to the Clemson College. Meanwhile, the the Pendleton Historic Foundation owner of the property.

The African-American social worker Jane Edna Hunter was born in 1882 on the plantation on which her ​​parents were sharecroppers. She was later founder of the Phillis Wheatley Association in Cleveland, which was named after the poet Phillis Wheatley from the time of the American Revolution.

Woodburn is now a run of the Pendleton Historic Foundation Museum can be visited on weekends from April to October. Eighteen furnished rooms on three floors are accessible to visitors. Directly adjacent is the Pendleton District Agricultural Museum.

Architecture

The original house was built around 1830 and 1850 expanded. A terrace on the roof of the house was removed in the 20th century.

The building is a two and a half storey, built into a wooden frame construction building on a basement, raised plinth. It was covered with shingle. The type of house is the usual construction in Charleston, with the owners taking advantage of the benefits of the summer breeze. The veranda is applied on two levels and surrounds three sides of the house. Two pairs of stairs leading from the ground floor up. About it is accessed by French doors in one of the salons. Some of the windows, the panels are folded away underneath to allow access to the veranda.

The rooms have high ceilings. Most of the interior walls are covered with about 25 cm wide, horizontally mounted wooden floorboards. In the basement full basement is a kitchen and a dining room that is relatively cool on hot summer days.