Gippy Plantation, Colonial plantation in Moncks Corner, United States.
Gippy Plantation is a 2+1⁄2-story Greek Revival frame house at 366 Avenue of Oaks near Moncks Corner, Berkeley County, South Carolina. Its main facade centers on a four-column gabled pediment. John Sims White built it after an earlier house burned; in the 1920s it received restoration and Colonial Revival features, and in 1927 its square columns were replaced with round ones.
John Sims White purchased the land in 1821 and built the current house after a fire destroyed an earlier structure on the property. The reconstruction of this 1,800-acre estate marked its revival as a functioning plantation in the early 1800s.
The house shows how wealthy plantation owners displayed their status through grand architecture with prominent columns and symmetrical design. These building choices reflected the social standing of South Carolina's landholding class during the 1800s.
Gippy Plantation stands at 366 Avenue of Oaks, off Highway 52 near Moncks Corner in Berkeley County. The main house is a private residence on the National Register of Historic Places, listed in 2016, so it is not a public museum and interior tours are not offered. The address sits along the oak-lined drive that gives the avenue its name; visitors view the facade and grounds from the road.
The 1927 alterations by Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas G. Roosevelt replaced the house's earlier square columns with round ones. In 1972, after Roosevelt's death, three businessmen bought about 1,200 acres of Gippy for roughly $1 million, intending added industrial use along Highway 52.
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