Hanover House (Clemson)

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name = Hanover House
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caption = Hanover House in the South Carolina Botanical Garden
location = Clemson University campus, Clemson, South Carolina
nearest_city =
lat_degrees = 34
lat_minutes = 40
lat_seconds = 30.8
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 82
long_minutes = 49
long_seconds = 05.3
long_direction = W
area =
built = 1714-1716
architect = Paul de St. Julien
architecture =
added = June 5 1970
visitation_num =
visitation_year =
refnum = 70000594cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
mpsub =
governing_body = State (Clemson University)

Hanover House is a French Huguenot house built in 1714-1716. The house is also known as the St. Julien-Ravenel House. It was constructed in the South Carolina Low Country in the present Berkeley County. When Lake Moultrie was created in the 1940s, the house was moved to the Clemson University campus in Pickens County.

History

Hanover House was built by Paul de St. Julien, a French Huguenot, on land that was a 1688 grant to his grandfather by the Lords Proprietors. The house is a 1½-story cypress wood house with a gambrel roof. It has brick chimneys on either end of the house. There are fireplaces on both the first and second floor. Engraved on a stucco band at the top of one of the chimneys is "PEU À PEU" for the French proverb "Peu à peu l'oiseau fait son nid," which is "Little by little, the bird builds his nest." St. Julien named the house Hanover in honor of the House of Hanover that had ascended the throne of the Kingdom of Great Britain, [Stoney, Samuel Gaillard, "Plantations of the Carolina Low Country", 2nd ed., Carolina Art Association, Charleston, SC, pp. 51, 108-109, 1938.] "to show his appreciation for that country which had befriended so many Huguenot refugees after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes."

St. Julien's daughter married Henry Ravenel. The house remained in the family for nearly 200 years.

. The house is furnished with period reproductions and donations by the Ravenel family [ [http://www.cityofclemson.org/?CONTEXT=art&cat=27&art=46&BISKIT=3604941963 City of Clemson webpage on the Hanover House] ]

The Hanover House is on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.cite web|url=http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/pickens/S10817739012/index.htm
title=Hanover House, Pickens County (Clemson University) |accessdate=2008-03-23|work=National Register Properties in South Carolina listing|publisher=South Carolina Department of Archives and History] citation|title=PDFlink| [ National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: St. Julien-Ravenal House / Hanover House] |32 KB|date=August 21, 1970 |author=Norman McCorkle |work=South Carolina scanned copies|publisher=National Park Service]

References

External links

* [http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/pickens/S10817739012/index.htm Hanover House, Pickens County (Clemson University)] , including 7 photos, at South Carolina Department of Archives and History
* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.sc0391 Hanover, (moved to Clemson University campus, Clemson, SC), Pinopolis vicinity, Berkeley County, SC: 67 photos, 15 drawings, 6 data pages] , at Historic American Building Survey