Eutaw, Eutaw Springs

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S. 6-* Stoney: Plantations of the Carolina Low Country. HABS No. .. it hUTAft $ i^- Near Eutsw Sprinps, Qranpeburg County, South Carolina Owner: Santee-Cooper Hydroelectric and Navigation Project i 9JL erection: Present condition: Fair; in danger of inundation Description; Frame; story and a halfj high basement5 gable roof. Plan: Pair of equal drawing rooms in the front with an intercommunicating door, and a door to the porch from each. These rooms have a pair of windows on each outside wall and a fireplace in the rear wall, with a door to the hail at one side. This rear hall has a stair against one wall and. a pair of closets facing it. ht the rear are the doors to the flanking rooms. On both sides are one-room wings, dating from and A wide porch surrounds the house.

Eutaw is in many ways the alpha and omega of the architec- ture of the region. It betrays traditional features such as the asymmetric plan and the utilization of the roof space for .. bedrooms, with dormer windows. On the other hand, with its low spreading roof and broad piazzas on open arcades it approached the perfection of the later Carolina-Caribbean type of which Dean Hall in lower Berkeley is the exemplar. At present Eutaw has a. dilapidated air, but painted and vath blinds on the dormer windows it would regain its original beauty. The raising of the piazzas on an open arcade is unique in the upper county, as is the porch on three sides of the house. The columns, however, are almost typical, being slender, turned, members of a Doric type, maue out of solid cypress.

The porch eaves are moulded in the form of a simple cornice.; The house - -'- itself is covered with cypress weatherboarding which extends up the gable ends, the verg-e boards of which are unmoulced. The dormers also are covered in the simplest manner, the cheeks being of flush boarding as are the gable spandrels, and the window trim is unmoulded. Other than the dormers, the windows have paneled shutters. The ornament is concentrated on the doorway, which has reeded pilasters with a dentiied cornice above. The interior possesses woodwork that is simple compared to the other houses of the group, but dignified and satisfying. The overman- ^^^ tel of ..the drawing-room is treated with three arched head Wp panels. The mantel> probably brought from elsewhere, has v HABS Ho.

t&ge 2 slender reeded pilasters with fans carved in the frieze blocks and dentiled and carved cornices. The dado and dears are pan- eled, with a supplementary appliea panel mould, the doors hav- ing glazed transoms, lighting the hall. From "A Survey of the Early buildings in the Region of the Proposed Santee and Pinopolis Reservoirs in South Carolina," by Thomas T. Waterman Other existing records: S. G. Stoney, Plantations of the Carolina Low Country * Author! Jj__UJ gJUL^uj Approved; j_t'/npj-o_. Addendum to: Eutav HABS No. Eutaw Springs Vicinity Orang^borg County ft South Carolina ; PHOTOGRAPH Historic American Buildings Survey Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Department of the Interior Washington,