Architecture of the Old South: South Carolina

Architecture. Hardcover book published with a dust jacket by Beehive Press, Savannah, GA with Library of Congress Catalog No. (LOCCN) 84-70059. A survey of some 200 buildings, covering architecture in the low-country of aristocratic planters as well as that of up-country small farmers with over 200 black and white illustrations. There is an Index. Topics Archdale Hall, an early Palladian mansion even earlier than Drayton Hall; The Elms, a Jefferson-style country house with octagonal rooms; James Frazier’s fabulous Gothic octagon, et al. Other topics include Charleston “single” houses, tabby (a concrete-like mixture of oyster shells and sand), pisé de terre (walls made of beaten earth), buildings made by the book (copied from architecture pattern books), the influence of Northern builders and architects and the work of America’s first native-born professionally trained architect, South Carolina-born Robert Mills.