Historic Rice Hope Plantation For Sale in Charleston SC

1. I grew up there as well, we had property to the right of that house, down on the little peninsular area. Initially there were trailers there, though I think there is still one left. Eventually we all built homes. My grandaddy's was on the end..water on three sides. Then my dads house and his sisters house were near, end to end, making the little pond in the back and the Cooper in the front. We spent many many summers and weekends there catching bream, cat fish, and turtles (to play with). I would love to live there again. Anyone know the asking price for the actual plantation house? Theres one vacant lot down the hill to the right, (facing the house). Im thinking the asking price is 140,000.
2. Back in the late '70's, I used to go there as a child, when Rice Hope was an "Art School".  My stepbrother, stepsister, brothers and sisters used to run these grounds playing among the oak trees.  This was before it was sold to become a bed and breakfast.  There were many more than 9 bedrooms!  Every time we went, we'd choose a different bedroom, play in the game room on the second floor (there was a poker room)...some of the rooms had an eerie feel to them, some had a warm feel.  In the basement, underneath the back kitchen stairs, there were shower heads from when it was a "home for unruly boys"...As a kid, we heard it was a "boys home".  Further back in the basement, there were rooms that we didn't fully explore.  If you were looking at the house from the "roundabout" driveway, to the far right was a REAL "Game Room", with a moose head hanging above the couch.  I've been wanting to go back there to to explore that place for many years!  It was something, as a kid, to play  on the swings hanging from an oak tree in front of what was then a horse stable.  We would see who could swing the highest and jump out of the swing the farthest. 
   
   Of course, it was even more fun to go back to school the next week and tell everyone we stayed in a 40 room mansion on the Cooper River!  Running an playing on the terraced gardens in the front, facing the water...There was a tire swing on that front part, if I remember correctly.  The pond I've read about on this property had carp in it at the time, and was rented out to a few people who had trailers on that section of the property.
   
   Remember, as you read further for my next memory of that place, that we were kids:  There was a white cat on that place that had somehow broken it's back when it was younger, but had recovered enough that it could walk properly...but, when it was spooked, it would run as fast as it could and those little hind legs would flop all around in various directions!  Thinking as an adult, we little kids shouldn't have been spooking that cat, but, at the time, it was funny! 
   
   I also remember an apartment on the left end (looking from the roundabout) that a very nice couple lived in.  The apartment was separated from the main house, and I was told it was the cooks quarters, since, there was only one adjoining door to the kitchen.  The kitchen seemed to be quite small, and it adjoined the main dining room, where the windows overlooked the gardens and the Cooper River.  Through the hallway, going away from the kitchen, you would come upon the formal entrance hall, where French doors looked over the terrace into the gardens.  Behind the walls, to the right of that hallway, was what was used as a "den/office" at the time, where we watched TV.  I remember watching a TV show with Shaun Cassidy and some other young lady whose characters were mentally challenged, and one of the owners who was the "Artist" of the house told us that we couldn't watch it because it was a "dirty movie"...
   
   Oh, how, I'd love to go back to that place just for a tour.  If the current owners see this, please let me know how to get in touch with you.  I'd love to take a road trip if I can remember how to get there!
3. So lovely, and all built by African slave labor.  What a bargain!