Fonti Flora Plantation is a historic plantation house located near Monticello,

Fairfield County, South Carolina Fairfield County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 20,948. Its county seat is Winnsboro. Fairfield County is part of the Columbia, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area. History 18t ...

. It was built about 1836, and is a 2-½ story clapboard residence set on low foundations. The front façade features a full width two-story

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

portico supported by six square paneled piers. Additional decorative detail includes the

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

style tripartite Gothic windows on the front and side facades. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1979.

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Plantation houses in South Carolina Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Gothic Revival architecture in South Carolina Greek Revival houses in South Carolina Houses completed in 1836 Houses in Fairfield County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, South Carolina {{FairfieldCountySC-NRHP-stub