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a two-story, 52-foot (16 m) by 20-foot (6.1 m) structure with a gabled roof and stepped and curvilinear gable ends. An 18-foot (5.5 m) by 28-foot (8.5 m) service wing was added to the south side of the house in the 1930s (the wing was built in the same 18th-century style as the house). The first floor of the house originally contained a parlor, living room, and dining room, while the second floor contained three bedrooms. The interior has been outfitted with original furniture.
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gardens and a smaller less-defined pool (known as the Azalea Pool) on the north side. The north gardens are laid out in grid-like fashion with each surrounded by hedges and separated by walkways. On the east side of the gardens is a "spoked wheel" formation roughly 100 feet (30 m) in diameter. Perhaps the most notable feature of the gardens is the "Middleton Oak", or "Great Oak", a massive
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Place as their winter residence. Determined to restore the gardens to their original splendor, the Smiths labored for several years, replanting and reworking the gardens. They opened the plantation's gardens to the public in the late 1920s. In 1941, the Garden Club of America called the Middleton Place gardens "the most interesting and important garden in the United States".
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demonstration area) were at the south end of the loop, and the family burial grounds and main garden area were at the north end. The terraced gardens and butterfly ponds lay east of the main residence. The original roadway, the main gate of the original residence, and the levee separating the two Butterfly Lakes were all situated on a continuous east-west axis.
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barn, stable, work buildings, and cottages; the buildings were constructed of brick salvaged from the ruined main house. In the early 1970s, approximately 110 acres (45 ha) of the 7,000-acre (2,800 ha) plantation—including the south flanker, the gardens, and several outbuildings—were placed on the
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The Middleton Place House, formerly the south wing or south flanker, was built in 1755 by Henry Middleton (one stone of the house contains Middleton's initials and the year "1755"). The roof was added in 1868, after the original roof was destroyed when Union soldiers burned the property. The house is
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Williams Middleton's daughter, Elizabeth, inherited Middleton Place in 1900, and made minor restorations. Upon her death in 1915, she left the plantation to her cousin, John Julius Pringle Smith (Smith was a great-great-great-grandson of Henry Middleton). Smith and his wife, Heningham, used Middleton
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in April 1861, sparking the U.S. Civil War. In February 1865, near the end of the war, Union troops captured Middleton Place and burned the main house and north flanker, and part of the south flanker. The soldiers also killed and ate five of the water buffalo and stole six. These six later showed up
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In 1868, Williams Middleton restored the roof to the south flanker at Middleton Place, and converted it to the main residence. He lacked the money for major restorations, however, and managed to obtain only limited success as a large-scale planter. After his death in 1883, Middleton Place passed to
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Henry likely planned Middleton Place as a country residence more than as an active rice plantation. The original main house, completed around 1741, was three stories tall, built of brick in Jacobean-style. In 1755, Middleton added two two-storey free-standing wings, or "flankers", to the north and
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The northwest section of Middleton consists of a densely forested woodland which gives way to a marsh at the riverbank. This natural area is separated from the north gardens by an 800-foot (240 m) by 100-foot (30 m) rectangular pool (known as the Reflection Pool) on the west side of the
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The east gardens stretch eastward from the main residence for approximately 200 feet (61 m) before descending in a series of terraces to the floodplain of the Ashley River. Two congruent ponds at the eastern base of the terraces resemble butterfly wings, and are thus known as the "Butterfly
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In the 1930s, the Smiths began restoring the house and outbuildings at Middleton Place to their late 18th-century appearance. In 1971, the plantation was added to the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark District. Shortly thereafter the Middleton Place
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John Williams. He likely began construction on the main block of the house, selecting the site for its strategic view of the Ashley River. After Williams' death, the plantation became part of the dowry of his daughter, Mary Williams. In 1741, Mary Williams married Henry Middleton, whose name was
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The restoration of Middleton Place began in 1916 when Middleton descendant John Julius Pringle Smith (1887–1969) and his wife Heningham began several decades' work of meticulously rebuilding the plantation's gardens. They had New York architect Bancel LaFarge design a stableyard complex of
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The original access to Middleton Place was a roadway that ran due east from Ashley River Road for approximately 1,000 feet (300 m) before terminating in a large loop. The main residence (now consisting of only the south flanker) lay at the east end of the loop, the stables (now part of a
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Foundation was established, with Smith's grandson Charles Duell acting as its first president. In recent years, the Middleton Place Foundation has carried out extensive research to document the thousands of African-American slaves once owned by the Middleton family.
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Lakes". Levees separate the ponds from the river to the north and from the mill pond to the south. A smaller 150-foot (46 m) by 150-foot (46 m) garden (subdivided into four still smaller gardens) lies between the north and east gardens.
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in the late 18th century, the first in the United States. They were experimental draft animals, suited to the deep muck in which rice was grown. In the gardens, Arthur's son Henry Middleton's friendship with French botanist
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grown in an American garden, a house gift during Michaux's visit in 1786. Three of the four planted at the corners of the main parterre survive, grown to fifteen feet: One is
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After Mary Middleton's death in 1761, Henry moved to a small house north of Charleston and gave Middleton Place to his son, Arthur. In 1776, at the outbreak of the
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Upon Henry Middleton's death in 1846, Middleton Place passed to his son, Williams Middleton. In 1860, Williams Middleton signed the South Carolina
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toppled the walls of the main house and north flanker and further damaged the gardens. The gardens lay neglected for several decades afterwards.
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Middleton began work on the plantation's gardens in 1741. Determined to outshine his neighbors, who were laying out neat four-squared patterned
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south ends of the house. The free-standing north wing contained a library and ballroom, while the south wing was used as a guest house.
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John Williams, an early South Carolina planter, probably began building Middleton Place in the late 1730s. His son-in-law
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The vast majority of Middleton's 6,000 acres is forest. In 2013, half of the property was dedicated to a
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were used for refrigeration). In 1850, the second story of the springhouse was converted into a chapel.
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soldiers burned most of the house, leaving only the south wing and gutted walls of the north wing and
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is a demonstration area that includes a barnyard and stable, both built in the 1930s.
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View toward south wing; the original main residence stood at the gap in the treeline
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and had established a plantation in the area which is now part of the cities of
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subsequently applied to the plantation. Middleton's father had immigrated from
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The south Butterfly Lake and Rice Mill, with the Ashley River in the distance
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National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form for Middelton Place
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Middleton Place was established in the 1730s by early South Carolina
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Ogden Tanner, "Middleton Place: Charleston's Continental Classic",
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tree with a trunk more than 10 feet (3.0 m) in diameter.
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Newly discovered records show that Middleton Place imported
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Swamp in the plantation's undeveloped northwest section
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extended to the left to enclose floodable rice fields.
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and about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of downtown
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Middleton Place is set on the southwest bank of the
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toppled the walls of the main house and north wing.
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark District

Middleton Place is located in South Carolina
Middleton Place is located in the United States
Summerville, South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
32°53′59″N 80°08′12″W / 32.89982°N 80.13654°W / 32.89982; -80.13654
71000770
plantation
Dorchester County
west of the Ashley
Charleston
South Carolina
antebellum
National Historic Landmark District
Henry Middleton
First Continental Congress
Founding Father
Arthur Middleton
Declaration of Independence
Henry Middleton
Williams Middleton
American Civil War
Union
main house
1886 Charleston earthquake
National Register of Historic Places
Ashley River
South Carolina Highway 61

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