Facade	Portico Detail	Main Entrance	Left Oblique	Left Rear Oblique
Right Rear Oblique	Chimney Detail	Window Detail	Frame Outbuilding	Treelined Driveway

(El Recuerdo) The Davis House is believed to have been built ca. 1843 for Edward Bertrand Davis. The house is a good example of a vernacular antebellum plantation house characterized by Greek Revival elements and is also associated with Davis, a locally known planter and militia officer. In 1853, Davis raised the Black River Troop of the 5th Regiment of the South Carolina Militia and served as its captain until 1858 when he was elevated to the command of the Fifth Regiment. He headed this regiment until his death in 1860. The Davis House is a two-story, frame house with a heavy timber braced frame weatherboard sheathing, and a gabled roof. The foundations are brick piers. The rear or east elevation has one-story, gabled-roofed ells at either side, connected to the main block by shed-roofed connectors. The façade features a central, two-tiered portico with four pillars on each level, a plain balustrade, and a pedimented gable roof. The boxed cornice is carried around the entire house and is raked in the gable ends. Enclosed brick chimneys are located at the north and south ends of the house. These chimneys have recessed stuccoed panels on all faces. The broad entrance hall features a double staircase which rises at each side of the hall and merges at a back landing where a single flight rises to the second floor. An original frame, gabled roof and gabled porch outbuilding on the property is intact, although the original use of the building is unknown. Listed in the National Register January 13, 1983.

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