Prospect Hill (Charleston County, South Carolina): Difference between revisions

Propsect Hill
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	2695 Laurel Hill Road, Edisto Island, SC 29438
Built	1800
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	86003196[1]
Added to NRHP	Nov. 28, 1986

Prospect Hill’s significance lies in its architectural qualities and in its association with the production of sea island cotton. Constructed about 1800 for Ephraim Baynard, it is set on a bluff overlooking the South Edisto River. In 1860, Prospect Hill belonged to William Grimball Baynard, an elder in Edisto Island Presbyterian Church, Justice of the Peace, Justice of the Quorum, and owner of 220 slaves. The property passed in 1861, at his death, to his son William G. Baynard. The house and plantation have gone to other owners, outside of the family.

Prospect Hill is a two-story, weatherboard clad, frame residence in the Federal style, which has a low pitched, hipped roof and a raised, full brick basement. The plan is rectangular with a central hall on each of the two floors. There is a one-story, hipped roof porch across the entire façade and a projecting, two-story, two-bay, hipped roof pavilion at the rear elevation. Two interior brick chimneys with stuccoed necking, corbeling, and triple stacks pierce the rear slope of the roof. The porch across the façade features five bays, plain columns, a simple balustrade with slat balusters, dentil molding, and modillions with pellet molding.^[2]

The house was listed in the National Register November 28, 1986.

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