Plum Orchard

Plum Orchard Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Nearest city	St. Marys, Georgia
Built	1898
Architect	Peabody & Stearns
Architectural style	Classical Revival
MPS	Cumberland Island National Seashore MRA
NRHP reference No.	84000258[1]
Added to NRHP	November 23, 1984

Plum Orchard 30°51′21″N 81°27′55″W / 30.855933°N 81.465238°W / 30.855933; -81.465238 is an estate located in the middle of the western shore of Cumberland Island, Georgia, USA. The estate and surrounding area are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Designed by Peabody and Stearns for George Lauder Carnegie, a son of Thomas M. Carnegie and named after his uncle, Scottish industrialist George Lauder, it was formally dedicated on October 6, 1898. Peabody and Stearns also designed various additions to the mansion in the several following years, probably in 1906.^[2]

After George Lauder Carnegie died, his widow, Margaret Copley Thaw, remarried and moved to Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Most of the original furnishings were sold, and furniture from Dungeness was brought in to furnish the house. The house was then occupied by the Johnston family, from Nancy Trovillo Carnegie Heaver/Johnston's branch of the family.

The estate is now part of Cumberland Island National Seashore.

The mansion also includes a rare squash tennis court.

See also

• Dungeness (Cumberland Island, Georgia)
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Cumberland Island National Seashore
• St. Marys Historic District (St. Marys, Georgia)
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Camden County, Georgia

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Plum Orchard (Cumberland Island, Georgia).

• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. GA-2362, "Plum Orchard", 10 photos

This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 16:11