“M” is for Mulberry Plantation (Berkeley County)

“M” is for Mulberry Plantation (Berkeley County). Completed in 1714 Mulberry is one of the most distinctive eighteenth-century houses in America. The building is stylistically unique and has variously been described as having Jacobean, French, and Anglo- Dutch baroque origins. Its design blends seventeenth-century forms with the formality of eighteenth-century Georgian architecture in a unified composition. The two-story brick structure is laid in English bond. Its overall form has the squat profile typical of Huguenot-influenced plantation houses in the lowcountry. The square main block has a steeply pitched gambrel roof with jerkin-head gables. Attached to the four corners are one- story brick pavilions with bell-shaped roofs. The floor plan is asymmetrical. The first floor interior was remodeled about 1800. The second story rooms retain their original woodwork. Mulberry plantation was designated a National Historic landmark in 1960.