William Robertson House, also known as Wampee Plantation Summer House, is a historic home located at
Pinopolis,
Berkeley County, South Carolina
Berkeley County is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 229,861. Its county seat is Moncks Corner. After two previous incarnations of Berkeley County, the current county was created in 1882. B ...
. It was built about 1844, and is a two-story, three bay, frame
I-House
The I-house is a vernacular house type, popular in the United States from the colonial period onward. The I-house was so named in the 1930s by Fred Kniffen, a cultural geographer at Louisiana State University who was a specialist in folk archi ...
, sheathed in weatherboard. It features a hip roofed, one-story porch spanning the façade and wrapping around the right elevation. The house was one of the early planters' retreats in the pineland village of Pinopolis.
It was listed in 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 ...
in 1982.
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References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1844
Houses in Berkeley County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Berkeley County, South Carolina
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