Borough House, Playhouse, State Route 261 & Garners Ferry Road, Stateburg

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On the grounds of the Borough House plantation complex on west side of State Route 0.8 mile north of intersection of Route 261 and State Route Stateburg, Sumter County, South Carolina U.S.G.S. Wedgefield, SC 7.5 Minute Quadrangle Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Coordinates:

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The playhouse is a dependency of the Borough House plantation complex and is part of the gardens immediately adjacent to the main house. The Borough House coinplex was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Stateburg Historic District in and as an individual site in PART I. HISTORICAL INFORMATION NOTE: Background material and site history for the playhouse may be found in data pages for the Borough House, Stateburg, Sumter County, South Carolina, HABS No. Data specific to the playhouse follows below. The playhouse is a small log structure approximately x and high set on four field stone piers. It has a dutch door, and two shuttered windows without glazing. The playhouse was constructed c. for the children of Walter C.

White, owner of the Borough House at the time, and incorporated "traditional" log construction with clay chinking, and a cypress shingle roof. The house was located on the Borough House grounds until the when it was moved to a neighboring house about 0.2 mile north or the Borough House. It remained there until around I960, when it was repatriatea to the Borough House gardens and repaired as a playhouse for Anderson's daughter. Repairs consisted primarily of replacing the remaining chinking with cement tinted to match the yellow ochre color ot the main house. Playhouse HABS No.

(Page 2) Anderson (present owner of the Borough House) believes the playhouse was built at the same time as a log cabin structure which still exists to the south of the Borough House grounds along Route The cabin, also a traditional log structure, was built by White to accomodate a forester when she first began to convert the plantation to timber management in the