Here’s another old white building somewhere in South Carolina. Where? What is it? Send your guess to feedback@statehousereport.com — and remember to include your name, home city and contact information.
Last week’s mystery, “Old white building,” showed John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation Office, which is located on the campus of Clemson University behind his Fort Hill House.
Congratulations to these readers who correctly identified it: Bill Segars of Hartsville; Elizabeth Jones and Jay Altman, both of Columbia; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Tim Todd of Anderson; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Pat Keadle of Wagener; Barry Wingard of Florence; and George Graf of Palmyra, Va.
Segars provided some detail: “This little 20-foot-by-25-foot structure, built in 1825, is where Calhoun came to get away from the rigors of public political life in Washington D.C. He penned many documents here as he served as vice president under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, and secretary of state for President John Tyler, as well as his time in the U.S. Senate. Ownership of the Fort Hill Plantation property moved from Calhoun to his son-in-law, Thomas G. Clemson, and then on to Clemson University, which is the core of the university’s campus. It currently houses many Calhoun family artifacts.”
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