"Middleton Place," John Julius Pringle Smith house, 4300 Ashley River Road, Charleston, South Carolina, 1928. House: Original house burned in 1865; a 1755 guest quarters converted to the family house. Landscape: Gardens first planted in 1791 by Henry Middleton; restored by John Julius Pringle Smith, a Middleton descendent, and Heningham Ellett (Mrs. J. Pringle Smith) in the 1920s. [The "Middleton Oak", or "Great Oak", is a massive live oak tree with a trunk more than 10 feet (3.0 m) in diameter]
World North and Central America United States South Carolina
World North and Central America United States North Carolina
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