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Millford Plantation Tour
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" But tell us a little bit about Milford who built on the offer was designed and it -- thirties a young couple demanding the South Carolina prominent family in politics and the wealth and power and courageous to build something this exit doors later in their twenties when the design of the house and I'm quite quite a passion for style yeah. And then wounded next well the health that in many Phillip Silva early part of a centrist Clark's from Detroit all the house as the winner retreats and and they held it until about 1982. And then my uncle Richard Jenrette -- the house. And your uncles very well known in business circles but he also collects and restores houses and furniture that's right this is his latest one -- wonderful hobby to have. Like -- to see the inside but the outside. It is a Greek revival temple but it's very unusual isn't it yes this very elaborate with the ornaments faces -- columns and a solid owls is those incredible."
" Was the house damage during the civil war almost on the last day of the war of health and development burned down and a fortunately a horse McCain galloping up the hill and since the war history gives it signed -- semantics to burn it down so there was say -- quite and there are thank you there was. And incidents where horsemen rode through this grand -- and their horses for a breath of one another road back and forth for the hall. The health with -- to their governor of the state and I think it was. An insult and an insult yes indeed for horses which would fit in this -- must be. Fifty feet long and fifteen feet wide I think that's about appearance and of course the furnishings in the details everything just perfect engine. What room is this this is a double parlor. Was designed. For entertaining news this is of room where did this could be over. Just sitting and talking a reunion. Look at these windows these are -- this is a wonderful architectural feature all the houses that -- What did receive up into the ceiling to Regina you can actually walk though in the feeling mature adults. During the springtime amazing. I understand it your uncle collects houses and collects antique furniture but also. Likes to kind of put the puzzles back together finding the original furnishings. Yes much of of furniture that's -- senator governor and his men in the builders of the house. He likes to get pieces that were actually in the house the minute he's never left the panels beautiful mahogany. Empire style the style furniture. What about chandelier like weather's too yeah are they original. The chandeliers actually belonged to another house that amount Poland's edged border and also the Hudson river and he brought those to South Carolina -- they -- more appropriate. For the rooms the perfect fit here beautiful -- on the other side of the hall we haven't done any room in the library or the thought of the hallway and."
" this is truly magnificent isn't it that's a wonderful bonus room that it table was originally -- above owners of the house. And the states of the Columbia governor's mansion so many years and -- purchased the house that return here we had to return to the house to the table and chairs are part of the original furnishings exactly I love the shape of the dining room which it starts off as a rectangle and it kind of and on a -- that the percent. In the doors are also curved. In the plaster I guess that's been painted practice to look like stone to marble yes it makes it look like they're Grecian. Simple well that's yeah that's the whole feeling of the houses that. This is truly a spiral staircase and I've never seen anything so magnificent. Well it's so important to the house is actually in its own room its overtime with large circular floor. Roughly fifteen feet across and this ends up the stairway so the top. Forty feet high and all the detailing is -- pure Greek revival and it looks like he was just crafted yesterday. That's wonderful -- well look at the decorations on the floors that original. -- new design into. Embrace the greasy little deals the panels beautifully done now. So the bedrooms are off off of this other hall that's right. But -- done a great job of keeping this Greek theme going through the carpets the furniture everywhere Vila. Yes it's this same thing is not carried out throughout the house this is -- one of the bedrooms with the wonderful armoire for. And it closed hell is this here that we have building clauses like we're used to now that's certainly of the period the bad I'm not sure it's it's not agree about -- is. Let's lovely mahogany bed and so huge -- steps to get into and I love that yeah. What about the bedroom across the hall there's a little more uncomfortable. More livable permits those. More traditional comfortable furniture as well as those lovely -- as a great color scheme the yellow they're gold. With the blue as you see it in the carpet downstairs. That it really doesn't pull through -- the Stiles. And that bathroom through there. Well when was the house first renovated actually early in -- in -- nineteen hundred's that's what the Clark family in the there'll probably toward a century that most of the 1920s bathroom with though all that marble horrible and then of course so beautiful antiques everywhere I think. Your uncle has done. A fabulous job restoring this --"