Seclusaval and Windsor Spring is a historic property in
Richmond County, Georgia that includes a
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 ...
building built in 1843.
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It was deemed notable historically in several ways:
*for its association with the historic Windsor Spring Water Company that sold water from the spring on the property
*for having a short but intact part of historic Tobacco Road, a road which connected
Savannah River
The Savannah River is a major river in the southeastern United States, forming most of the border between the states of South Carolina and Georgia. Two tributaries of the Savannah, the Tugaloo River and the Chattooga River, form the norther ...
docks to the big tobacco plantations of the county. Tobacco was brought to the river in
hogsheads drawn by mules. This road section was never paved.
*for being the nucleus of a settlement of relatives of Valentine Walker, a settlement that might have been the basis for a town or city, but which remained a small family settlement.
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It is also significant for the architecture of the main house on the property, Seclusaval, which is a " Sand Hills-type cottage". Sand Hills-type cottage architecture is a local, modified form of ]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 ...
architecture. The form has symmetry, wide entablatures
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, and classic columns of the Greek Revival style. And the front doorway of the house has a rectangular transom
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* Transom (architecture), a bar of wood or stone across the top of a door or window, or the window above such a bar
* Transom (nautical), that part of the stern of a vessel where the two sides of its hull meet
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with side lights, also consistent with Greek Revival style. But it also has a "one-story, high-pitched side gable roof, three gable dormers, and a full-facade porch" that characterize the Sand Hills variation. Seclusaval is "an excellent example" of this type.[
The property has eight contributing buildings and two other contributing structures (a spring house and a pavilion). The buildings are the main house, a slave cabin, a playhouse, a well house, a privy, a pantry, a smoke house, and a barn.][
The property was listed on the ]National Register of Historic Places
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in 1988.[
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See also
*Sandhills (Carolina)
The Sandhills or Carolina Sandhills is a 10-35 mi wide physiographic region within the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain province, along the updip (inland) margin of this province in the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The ...
, about the North and South Carolina sand hills, perhaps similar to the Sand Hills of this area
References
National Register of Historic Places in Augusta, Georgia
Sand Hills cottage architecture
Buildings and structures completed in 1843
1843 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
Slave cabins and quarters in the United States
Springs of Georgia (U.S. state)
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