Sea Pines Plantation, 32 Greenwood Drive, Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, SC. Surveyed as HALS SC-8, with a 1,028-word written history.
“The Sea Pines Landscape is significant for its mid-century planning and architecture, its incorporation of cultural heritage sites within the resort plan, and its association with designer Charles Fraser and landscape architect Hideo Sasaki.”
Written record, HALS SC-8 survey. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HALS program as HALS SC-8 · the record runs 1028 words · one of 86 surveyed structures published for this county.
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The Sea Pines Landscape is significant for its mid-century planning and architecture, its incorporation of cultural heritage sites within the resort plan, and its association with designer Charles Fraser and landscape architect Hideo Sasaki. The resort utilizes environmentally responsible planning, the result of Fraser s vision to preserve and integrate the existing environment into newly designed landscapes. Sea Pines set the agenda for large-scale resort planning from the forward in America. Description: The 6,000-acre controlled access Sea Pines Plantation on the southern tip of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. The resort is 31 miles northeast of Savannah, Georgia and 98 miles southwest Charleston, South Carolina.
The mixed use resort encompasses recreation facilities, single-family and multi- family homes and one commercial center. Sea Pines leverages its place on the island to be a destination in and of itself rather than a mere waypoint through the Hilton Head Island ensemble of resorts. History: The Sea Pines Plantation is notable for its development and plan. Charles Fraser first envisioned the resort in the Fraser hoped to develop and improve the land for human enjoyment while preserving its natural beauty, without disturbing the delicate balance between the environment and its inhabitants.
In he founded the Sea Pines Company with the objective of putting this development philosophy into practice.1 Hideo Sasaki was chosen to create the master plan for the resort, finished in Since its inception, Sea Pines has served as a model for resort communities around the world. Sasaki is credited with creating an environmentally sustainable design that continues with new construction today, because of the strict land-use covenants that are still in effect. The resort contains notable sites including four world-class golf courses, a 1 Rob Bender, History of Sea Pines, Love Real Estate Consultants: Sea Pines Real Estate Specialists, www.exploreseapines.org. 2 Mark Dawson, Sea Pines Plantation, Sasaki Associates, www.sasaki.com. SEA PINES PLANTATION HALS NO.
PAGE 2 acre forest reserve, the Stoney-Baynard ruins, Six Oaks Cemetery and Harbortown Marina. Harbour Town Golf Links, Heron Point, the Country Club Course and the Ocean Course courses were carefully woven to the existing topography and employ the natural lagoons in their designs; the Master Plan stipulated that 20% of the land could not be developed. The nature reserve now exists in the center of the resort. The reserve boasts miles of nature trails, former rice fields that have reverted to swamps and a prehistoric oyster shell ring, a remnant of Native American presence on the island. The Stoney-Baynard Ruins are the ruins of a plantation home constructed of tabb, a mixture of oyster shells, lime and sand.
The house became headquarters for the Union forces, and burned shortly after the Civil War. Landscape Architect Robert Marvin designed the Six Oaks Cemetery just inside the entrance of Sea Pines in Curvilinear paths and plots mark the design of the cemetery. The majority of the family markers are benches made of polished granite. The earliest burials date to the and the cemetery is still active today. There is no development immediately adjacent to the cemetery in any direction. Harbortown Marina has become the recognized cultural symbol for Sea Pines. The circular marina facing Dafuskie Sound boasts a lighthouse (operational but used as an attraction rather than for maritime safety), shops, restaurants and recreational amenities.
Although not zoned for cemetery purposes, Charles Fraser is buried at the edge of the marina under the Liberty Oak . Sea Pines is regarded as an exceptional example of sustainable design because of the great care Hideo Sasaki took in creating the Master Plan. Aerial photographs were used to determine the best route for paved roads in order to cut down the fewest trees. With increased development, Sea Pines Drive became the primary artery for traffic. This allowed cul-de-sacs to run perpendicular granting beach access without directly placing a road along the oceanfront. Housing lots were planned to have a view of either water or green space, and had to have sizable buffer spaces. The resort served as an early example of golf course front homes.
The muted green and brown tones of the buildings within the resort add to the concept that the built environment is not emphasized over nature in Sea Pines. Today, Sea Pines continues to draw vacationers and homeowners. Miles of accessible beaches, winding bike paths and lack of large-scale modern development have helped preserve the serenity and vision that Charles Fraser and Hideo Sasaki had for Sea Pines. Following its establishment, Sea Pines set a design precedent for similar oceanfront developments, and is a landscape design still referenced today.
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Bender, Rob. History of Sea Pines. Love Real Estate Consultants: Sea Pines Real Estate Specialists. www.exploreseapines.com. SEA PINES PLANTATION HALS NO. PAGE 3 Dawson, Mark. Sea Pines Plantation. Sasaki Associates. www.sasaki.com. Hough, Mark. The Mast: When Hideo Sasaki Designed the Sea Pines Resort in South Carolina Half a Century Ago, He Was Ecologically Ahead of His Time. He Was Also Ahead of Ours. Landscape Architecture Magazine (February Sea Pines Community Service Associates. Six Oaks Cemetery. www.seapinesliving.com Simo, Melanie. Biography of Hideo Sasaki, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (January
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Amanda Brown, John Evangelist, Brent Fortenberry and Anna Simpkins, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation Clemson University/The College of Charleston 292 Meeting Street Charleston, SC February 14, Entry HALS Challenge: Documenting Modernist Landscapes SEA PINES PLANTATION HALS NO. PAGE 4 Stoney-Baynard Ruins (Brent Fortenberry, Trail in the Nature Preserve (Brent Fortenberry, SEA PINES PLANTATION HALS NO. PAGE 5 Six Oaks Cemetery (Brent Fortenberry, Harbortown Marina and Lighthouse (Brent Fortenberry, SEA PINES PLANTATION HALS NO. PAGE 6 Harbour Town Links Golf Course (Brent Fortenberry, Architecture and color scheme (Brent Fortenberry,
| Hilton Head Island, South Carolina | The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town. |
| Beaufort County, South Carolina | 101 topographic sheets across the county. |
| Library of Congress record | The original filed report as the survey filed it. |
The federal surveyors worked through Hilton Head Island building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.
| Sheet | Structure | Survey | Report |
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| Stoney-Baynard House | HABS SC-863 | 2,670 words |
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