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(Richland County). In the early 1850s, Greek revival remained the favored style for the plantation houses of the South Carolina elite. Matthew Richard Singleton broke with the prevailing fashion when he decided to transform his Lower Richland County plantation house into an elegant Italianate mansion. Singleton, scion of a planter family with extensive landholdings along […]