Setting of Live Oaks	Main House view from Southeast	Main House	Main House Porch Detail	Main House Porch Window Detail
Main House Porch	Main House Breezeway	Main House Kitchen Wing	Main House Living Room	Main House Living Room Window
Main House Living Room Ceiling	Main House Living Room Entry Door	Main House Living Room Ducth Door	Main House Dining Room	Main House Dining Room Mantel
Main House Dining Room Mantel Detail	Main House Bedroom	Main House Bedroom	Main House Bedroom Mantel	Main House Bedroom Dormer
Guest House	Guest House End View	Ice House (L) and Laundry (R)	Manager's House	Manager's House End View

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Gravel Hill Plantation is architecturally significant as a rare and fully-realized example in South Carolina of the Adirondack or Rustic Style and the only known extant design south of the state of New York by architect Robert Palmer Huntington. The plantation is also historically significant as an example of the hunting plantation phenomenon in the South Carolina lowcountry from the end of the Civil War to World War II, in which wealthy Northerners acquired, and in many cases consolidated, historic plantations to create large recreational preserves and seasonal residences. Gravel Hill Plantation is the twenty-acre core of a large hunting plantation that includes eleven historic buildings, nine of them designed and built ca. 1910 by the owner, Robert Palmer Huntington. The complex includes three residential buildings, a kitchen and dining facility, ice house, stables and ancillary service buildings. Two additional historic buildings, a corncrib and a tenant’s house, are vernacular in construction and presumably date from the months in 1909-10 when this complex was being planned and built by Huntington. Listed in the National Register May 10, 2010.

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