Status: Sold
- Area
- 4000 ft2
- Bedrooms
- 5
- Half Baths
- 1
- Full Baths
- 3
- Days For Sale
- 145
Location
- Area:Out of Area
- City:Edgefield
- County:Edgefield
- State:SC
- Zip code:29824
Amenities
Description
Cedar Grove is an historic plantation home located near Edgefield, SC. It was built in 1790 and is a large two story Federal home with whit clapboard exterior and high gable roof. It features a double-tiered portico with delicate Adamesque detail. Many architectural features including a barrel vaulted hallway, elaborately carved mantlepieces. The front parlor retains an early hand-painted French wallpaper. the property features a landscape of tall cedars, as well as old English boxwoods and traces of an original rose garden like at John Blocker's fathers home. The gardens at Cedar Grove were reputedly laid out by Andrew Michaux, the renowned botanist who designed the gardens at Middleton Place in Charleston, SC.The famous English boxwoods of Cedar Grove were sold during the Great Depression to the Rockefeller family and planted in the gardens of the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, VA. Also on the property are the contributing servants quarters and original kitchen.
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