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Drayton Hall is an 18th-century plantation house located on the Ashley River about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Charleston, South Carolina, ... Gallery Drayton Hall ...
Ashley River Historic District is a historic district located west of the Ashley in the South Carolina Lowcountry in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.The Historic District includes land from five municipalities, almost equally split between Charleston and Dorchester counties.
The historic Drayton Hall was built in 1738 by enslaved laborers for John Drayton, grandfather of judge John Drayton II, on an adjoining property. Magnolia was originally a rice plantation, with extensive earthworks of dams and dikes built in fields along the river for irrigating land for rice cultivation.
In Virginia and the Carolinas, the Palladian style is found in numerous plantation houses, such as Stratford Hall, [136] Westover Plantation [137] and Drayton Hall. [138] Westover's north and south entrances, made of imported English Portland stone, were patterned after a plate in William Salmon's Palladio Londinensis (1734).
John Grimké Drayton (May 1, 1816 – April 2, 1891) was a nineteenth-century planter and priest in Charleston, South Carolina.He was a horticulturalist at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens on the Ashley River and an Episcopal priest who served nearby Old St. Andrew's Parish Church for forty years.
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Drayton House is a Grade I listed [1] country house of many periods [2] 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west of the village of Lowick, Northamptonshire, England.. Described as Northamptonshire's most impressive medieval mansion by Nikolaus Pevsner, [3] "one of the best-kept secrets of the English country house world" by architectural historian Gervase Jackson-Stops, [4] and (affectionately) "a most ...
Buntingsdale Hall was for many years (possibly since the group's formation in August 1943) the location of Royal Air Force HQ 22 Group. Although by 1969 there was a modern kitchen serving the original dining room in the north wing, there were few other facilities, and staff officers who "lived in" had sleeping accommodations in nearby huts.