Auldbrass Plantation, Plantation complex near Yemassee, Beaufort County, United States
Auldbrass Plantation is a plantation house in Beaufort County, South Carolina, designed by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1930s. The residence displays Wright's signature style with strong horizontal lines, open floor plans, and seamless connections between interior and outdoor spaces.
Charles Leigh Stevens, an industrial consultant, hired Frank Lloyd Wright in the late 1930s to design a plantation on land he had acquired in 1938; construction began in 1939. Most buildings were finished in the early 1950s, while others stayed unbuilt for decades. After Stevens died in 1962 the property passed to his daughter Jessica Loring, then to Westvaco in 1979 and to a group of hunters; Joel Silver bought it in 1986 and built some unbuilt structures from Wright's plans. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The site is located in a rural area of Beaufort County and is most easily reached by car. The surrounding landscape is flat and typical of the Lowcountry region, with woods and open land throughout the area.
Auldbrass is the only plantation complex Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed, and one of just two Wright buildings in South Carolina, the other being Broad Margin in Greenville. Wright wanted red granite for the grounds but it proved too expensive, so the scheme went without it. The landscape architect Thomas D. Church laid out the grounds, including a low wall around the plantation house and formal decorative planting beds.
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