Auldbrass Plantation or Auldbrass is located in Beaufort County, South Carolina, near the town of Yemassee. The name is a variation of "Old Brass" which was the name given to the farmland and the local river landing. The earliest records from the farm are dated to 1736 when the farm was known as Mount Pleasant. An industrial engineer, C. Leigh Stevens, joined five parcels of land together along the Combahee River to form the plantation.
The main house, stable complex and kennels were designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright from 1940â€"1951. Wright is credited with changing the name to "Auldbrass". The plantation was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It was purchased in 1986 by film producer Joel Silver after Donna Butler, a FLW real estate appraiser, convinced him to restore it. Auldbrass Plantation is an extraordinary example of historic preservation and is open to the public one weekend every two years, most recently November 7â€"8, 2015. Tours benefit the Beaufort County Open Land Trust.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's vision is alive at Auldbrass - A modern-day plantation, Auldbrass sprawls across 300 acres of South Carolina's low-country. But just three decades ago, Auldbrass had fallen into disrepair, until Hollywood producer Joel Silver...
External links
- American Memory from the Library of Congress
- American Memory - outer buildings
- South Carolina Plantations
- Many detailed images large page size
- Sunday Morning, CBS News 26 photos
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. SC-354, "Auldbrass, River Road, Yemassee, Hampton County, SC", 6 photos, 3 data pages, 1 photo caption page, supplemental material
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. SC-354-A, "Auldbrass, Stable Complex, River Road, Yemassee, Hampton County, SC", 8 photos, 1 photo caption page, supplemental material
