Making history visible

Abstract

Yeamans Hall Club (YHC) is a private golf course community outside of Charleston, South Carolina. A former plantation owned by Sir John Yeamans and then the Smith Family, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., analyzed the site in 1915 for its suitability as a winter resort. In 1925, the Yeamans Hall Club acquired the land and began construction on the Club. Due to the Great Depression of 1929 and World War II, the club was never fully developed. Following the format of a cultural landscape report, this thesis recounts YHC’s history, documents its existing conditions, and then analyzes the two. Once historic significance and integrity were determined, a cultural landscape management plan was created, which offered cultural landscape