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Middleton Place

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Middleton Place is a plantation on the Ashley River in Dorchester County, South Carolina, about fifteen miles northwest of Charleston, built in phases between roughly 1738 and 1755 and continuing through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is home to what is described as America's oldest landscaped gardens. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and designated a National Historic Landmark District, and it is preserved today as a museum of about 110 acres, a remnant of an original holding of some 7,000 acres, operated by the Middleton Place Foundation.

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Building Type
Plantation 1
Location
Dorchester County, South Carolina 1
Completed Year
1738 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Plantation 1
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1. Middleton Place - Wikipedia
  • Lead section, first sentence, opening clause
    Middleton Place is a plantation in Dorchester County
  • Lead section, first sentence, closing clause
    northwest of downtown Charleston, in the U.S. state of South Carolina.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Middleton Place is a plantation on the Ashley River in Dorchester County, South Carolina, about fifteen miles northwest of Charleston, built in phases between roughly 1738 and 1755 and continuing through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is home to what is described as America's oldest landscaped gardens. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and designated a National Historic Landmark District, and it is preserved today as a museum of about 110 acres, a remnant of an original holding of some 7,000 acres, operated by the Middleton Place Foundation.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field
    completion_date/completed = c. 17381755
  • In Style: American Colonial Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Colonial
  • Uses Element: Brick, Wikipedia lead
    They had New York architect Bancel LaFarge design a stableyard complex of barn, stable, work buildings, and cottages; the buildings were constructed of brick salvaged from the ruined main house.
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