City Directories and History: (Wavering Place) Magnolia is significant as one of the few remaining large antebellum plantation houses in lower Richland County. The
house features an imposing portico of the Greek Doric order. A monumental Greek Revival mansion, this house is the only one of its type and scale remaining in Richland County. Constructed ca. 1855 for Mrs. Frances (Fannie) Tucker Hopkins, the wealthy widow of David Thomas Hopkins, a prominent Richland County planter. Fannie Hopkins established a school for her granddaughters in the basement of Magnolia. Begun ca. 1860, “Magnolia School” served a number of neighborhood children; a Miss Savage served as governess. The property remained in the same family for over a hundred years. Magnolia is a two-story frame building with a full stuccoed brick basement and weatherboard siding. The portico’s columns rest on tall stuccoed pedestals. Fluted pilasters are placed at the building’s corners; these carry the entablature around the building. The grounds of the property include several antebellum outbuildings, including a brick kitchen/office, a frame smokehouse and two ones-story frame slave houses. Listed in the National Register March 27, 1986. [Courtesy of the SC Dept. of Archives and History]
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