The Locations
"Mont Royal"
English Version: Dec 31st, 2024
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"Mont Royal" (outside) - Boon Hall Plantation, near Charleston, SC
Location Overview: "Mont Royal outside", driveway
Location Overview: "Mont Royal outside", at the gate
"Mont Royal" (inside) - Stanton Hall, Natchez, MS
Location Overview "Mont Royal inside"
"Mont Royal" (outside) -
Boon Hall
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Mont Royal, SC, outside (driveway, gate, alley, slave cabins, cotton barn with jetty, gardens) |
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Boonhall Plantation, Mount Plesant, SC |
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Episode 01, scene 02, 03, 30, 33, 39 Episode 02, scene 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 39, 41, 43 Episode 03, scene 02, 15, 17, 24, 26 Episode 04, scene 03, 04, 05, 06, 11, 13 Episode 05, scene 06, 07, 08, 20 Episode 06, scene 13, 20, 22, 27, 36 Episode 07, scene 04, 25, 27 Episode 08, scene 09, 14, 16, 32 Episode 09, scene 09, 11, 12, 16, 18, 24, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33 Episode 11, scene 31 Episode 12, scene 10, 22, 23, 34, 35, 36, 37 |
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Comparison Movie To Reality
Movie: Front side Real: Main house, front
Movie: Porticus Real: Porticus
Movie: Portckus Real: Porticus
Movie: Porticus, mit stairs Real: Porticus, with horse step
Movie: Alley, view to the house Real: Live Oak Alley, to the house
Movie: Alley, view from the house Real: Life Oak Alley, from the house
Movie: Gate Real: Main house, seen through gate
Movie: backside, terrace at the house Real: Main House, backside with terrade (right)
Movie: slave cabins (outside the gate) Real: Slave Street
Movie: inside a slave cabin Real: inside a slave cabin
Movie: jetty at cotton barn ("cotton dock") Real: jetty and jetty house
Aerial view of jetty house © Google Maps
Position of Boon Hall inside the park © Google
Maps
Same as Aerial view © Google Maps
Highway 17
runs south to Mount Pleasant
and The Oak Alley runs up from below
on to Charleston (the jetty house on the lower edge)
Aerial view of the Boone Hall main house, driveway and garden © Google Maps
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Location Overview: "Mont Royal outside", driveway
Filming took place at the veranda, the driveway, in the front garden (with the summer temples), the walking path from the driveway to the terrace, the back terrace, the back garden (up to the group of trees alongside the lake) and the supply road at upper right,
Location Overview: "Mont Royal outside", at the gate
Filming took place at the gate, at the alley and outside and inside the slave cabins.
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Boone Hall
Tel. 843-884-4371
Visitations: Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 1 - 4 p.m.
Entrance: Adults $14.50, children $7
http://boonehallplantation.com/
Boon Hall Plantation and ist gardens is an ante-bellum plantation, is located in Mount Pleasant, SC near Charleston, SC and is listed in the National Register of Historical Places.
The plantation consists of the post-war main house, a row of preserved slave cabins (used by workers uo to around 1940), severel flower gardens, and the historical "Avenue of Oaks" (a nearly one mile long alley flanked by live oaks and spanish moose). The plantation is situated at the Wampacheeoone River in Christ Church District, about 10 miles from Charleston's historical district.
http://south-carolina-plantations.com/charleston/boone-hall.html
The estate was first mentionet on Sept 7th, 1681, when Theophilus Patey gave 470 acres of ground to Major John Boone, member of the Great Council of the colony, by event of his marriate to Patey's daughter Elizabeth. Nothing is nown about the use of the land by Boone, but he aquired adjecting land along the river to it.
Owners and other notable points in time were:
1711-19 inheritaged to his widow Elizabeth Boone and his children (testament of 1711), used by his eldest son Thomas Boone
1749 inheritaged to son John Boone
1750 Construction of the smoke tower
1776 inheritaged to nephew John Boone, 9 slaves listed
1790 Construction of the first wooden house, first slave cabins
1811 sold to Thomas A. Vardell, 1452 acres of land
1817 sold to John Johnston Jr., Hugh Patterson and John K. White for 1 Dollar by depts
1817 sold to brothers Henry and John Horlbeck, together with neighbouring plantation Laurel Hill in the brick business
1837 inheritaged solely to John Horlbeck
1839 sold to Henry Horlbeck's sons Henry, Daniel, Edward and John Horlbeck
1843 layout of the alley with Auffahrtallee aus 88 life oaks
1850 census lists 85 Sklaven
1872 sold to Henry Horlbeck's sons Frederick Henry and John S. Horlbeck as leading U.S. pecan nut producer
1916 inheritaged to children Frederick H. and Elizabeth L. Horlbeck
1935 sold to Thomas Archibald and Alexandra Stone, with supplemental land now 4039.5 acres
1936 construction of today's main house from stones in the colonial style, with a cellar, floor space about 10,000 square foot, 1st floor with library, dining room, loggia, game room, full kitchen, 2nd floor with 7 bed rooms and 7 bath rooms, attic with 2 rooms and storage
1940 sold to exile-russian prince Dimitri Djordjadze and his American wife Audrey
1945 sold for 120,000 Dollar to P. O. Moead Jr.
1955 Harris and Nancy McRae bought the estate. They continued to manage it and focussed on growing peaches. The reconstructed the estate, brought it back to ist original form as far as possible and opened it to the public in 1959. 2007 it was handed over to William H. McRae, who continues to open part of the estate to the public and works the other part.
The house, the gardens and other points of interrest are open for visitor tours all year long. While taking pictures and videos of the house is forbidden, the house and the outside arrangements were widely used for the t.v. miniseries "North and South" and the movies "Queen" and "The Notebook".
The stone made slave cabins were all made of bricks and are therefore still present today (more flats made of wood are not preserved today). It is assumed that these stone cabins were reserved for upper slaves like cooks, waiters, blacksmiths and carpenters. Every cabin has a central chimney, four windows to the front and one window to the street. Some of the roofs had to be rebuilt after damages from hurricane Hugo in 1989. Today they are housing exhebitions on the life and work of slaves of that time.
On July 14th, 1983, the "Slave Street" with the slave cabins, the smoke house and the oak alley with its oaks was listed in the Register of Historical Places. On Jan 21st, 1994, the main house and the park was added to it.. http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/charleston/S10817710135/S10817710135BI.pdf - Excerpt from the nomination document:
NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION
The present-day Boone Hall Plantation is a 724-acre tract bounded by Horlbeck Creek, Butler Creek, Long Point Road, U. S. Highway 17 and Laurel Hill ("Brickyard") Plantation, located approximately five miles northwest of downtown Mount Pleasant. Although it does not include the tracts of Palmetto, Parkers Island, or Laurel Hill that were all part of Thomas Archibald Stone's holdings in the 1930s, substantial portions of the pecan groves from the Horlbeck and Stone occupancies remain. The nominated acreage includes the most intact sections of the pecan groves, the main plantation residence and gardens, two overseer's houses, a brick cotton ginhouse, stable and well, tractor barn, corncrib, and office/commissary.
1 . Pecan Groves
Boone Hall's present entry drive, north from Long Point Road, is parallel to and slightly east of the historic entry, which continued as the oak allee to the house. The first 800 feet of the drive runs along a sandy ridge, on which is a stand of about thirty large pecan trees, in regular rows in a mowed field. To the east and west the remainder of this grove is obscured by overgrowth; further to the east is the large Cathedral Grove, now untended. However, the trees in this small stand, like the pecan trees between the oak allee and slave street, are substantial in size, healthy in new growth, and partly draped with Spanish moss, conveying the sense of being a tended, productive orchard of one hundred years old.
The grove northeast of the house also retains large trees in regular rows; however, the damage of Hurricane Hugo in 1989 is still visible at this orchard, and parts of it have been reclaimed by forest. For this reason, these large historic pecan groves are not included in the present nomination. The trees have the potential for growth, and for regaining integrity of appearance, and should not be considered to have been altered irreversibly.
2 . Plantation House and
Grounds
Built in 1936 by Thomas A. Stone, the main residence at Boone Hall Plantation is a two-and-one-half story masonry building with a brick exterior, in the Colonial Revival style. Facing south toward the nineteenth century oak allee, the eight-bay wide facade is slightly asymmetrical, with its monumental pedimented gable portico at the fourth, fifth and sixth bays. The portico is supported by six massive Tuscan columns, and features a bull's eye window in the tympanum. At the ground level, the three eastern (left) bays, with shuttered 9/9 windows, represent a large library/music room; within the portico are smaller 6/6 windows flanking the paneled entry door with sidelights and fanlight; and two 6/9 windows at the western (right) bays represent the dining room. Second level window openings are slightly shorter, and have 6/6 sash.
An oculus window occupies the space between the second and third bays. Above the entry is an iron balcony, accessed by French doors. The lateral hipped slate roof has a medium pitch, with tall brick exterior chimneys at each side elevation. There is one interior chimney.
The roof is hipped, with a rear wing of four bays at the eastern half of the house. Gable dormers at this rear wing, one at each side and two at the rear, indicate a finished attic level. There are brick exterior chimneys at the rear and east elevations of the wing, which has 6/9 windows at both levels. A small one-story brick wing, with hipped roof and exterior chimney, was originally used for farm-related storage.
At the rear bay of the east elevation is a one-story, one-by-one bay frame wing, with a slate gable roof and exterior brick chimney attached to the house as an office. This small structure predates the main house, and was relocated, attached and re-sided. Photographs taken during the construction show it as a simple farm cottage with a shed porch along the elevation presently facing north. One bay of the porch was removed, and access to the rear of the house is through the remaining bay, which was enclosed.
Within the ell at the rear of the house, connecting the library and loggia rooms, is a brick paved terrace enclosed with a serpentine wall. Single and double French doors, with fanlight, in round-arched surrounds access the terrace from the library; the west wall of the loggia opens to the terrace with a row of three French doors with sidelights and fanlights in round-arched openings.
Although designed in a revival style of the twentieth century, the main house is compatible with its nineteenth century surroundings. The enormous oaks of the avenue, and the gentle slope of the grounds toward Butler Creek, are enhanced by this massive structure on its low foundation. The effect is strengthened by the warm appearance of the salvaged brick used in ist construction.
The excavated basement has cement slab flooring, and 5'5" walls of smooth cement on which the brick exterior walls rest. Brick piers lend additional support to the main structure. An elevator shaft rises from the basement to the second level. The basement is accessible from the kitchen, and a small wine cellar section is accessed from the game room at the north end of the rear wing.
The interior of the main house is an excellent representation of upper-class taste of the era between the world wars, and retains integrity in its spaces, material, and finishes. Principal rooms sample a variety of revival styles.
The entry foyer, at the raised level of the portico, has flooring of teak parquet, and a simple baseboard with molded cap. Walls are plaster, with a double cornice at the ceiling level. A free-flying stair rises along the west and rear walls to the second level. The stair is lit by a triple-hung arched window with 12-light sash.
The cypress-panelled library is accessed through an arched opening with keystone, and a mahogany panelled door to match the exterior entry door. Shallow steps lead down from a landing just inside the room to the floor of wide oak boards. Built-in bookshelves have simple wood-and-wire doors; encased radiators are between the windows; and there is a cornice with heavy modillions above dentil molding.
A simple elevator door is to the left of an arched opening with keystone, centered at the east wall of the foyer and accessing a short hallway, with a powder room to the right and closet to the left, and steps down to the double door to the dining room. Oak flooring and cypress panelling match the library, but above a picture rail is a modest dentil cornice.
A swinging door leads from the dining room to a butler's pantry which connects with the kitchen. The pantry is equipped for serving large parties, with glass-fronted cabinets topped by smaller cabinets at the ceiling level extending completely around the room. Countertops are Monel metal, above additional cabinets. Narrow oak flooring is continuous from the pantry into the kitchen. The large kitchen, 21' by 18'3", was designed to facilitate grand-scale entertaining. It retains integrity of finishes, with cabinets and narrow oak flooring identical to those in the pantry. Appliances have been replaced over time, but an original oversized hood remains above the stove. At the west wall are openings for basement access and a service stair to the second level; the rear foyer is to the east.
The loggia and game room, located at the west side of the rear wing, are particularly interesting examples of the twentieth century vogue for revival styles. The loggia features a low groin-vaulted ceiling of brick and cement stucco, herringbone-laid brick flooring, with two millstones inset, round-arched fireplace surround, and three openings to the terrace. The adjacent game room has exposed ceiling beams of rough-hewn cypress and cypress panelled walls. The flooring is of wide heart pine which appears to have been salvaged from the nineteenth century Horlbeck house.
One other element from the earlier Horlbeck house which has been identified in the current house is an original exterior door reused at the second level opening to the attic stair. In the west bedroom, over the library, is an early Federal style mantelpiece of unknown provenance, perhaps also reclaimed from the Horlbeck house. Second level finishes are generally simpler than those at the ground floor. Arches along the hallway have fluted pilasters and keystones. Rear bedrooms and the third level finished space are quite plain. Bathrooms, like the kitchen, are functional spaces, with high-quality fixtures representative of the early twentieth century.
The interior of the main residence retains a high degree of integrity throughout. It is an excellent example of the combination of "up-to-date" comfort and revival styles that dominated the grand houses of the northerners who rebuilt Lowcountry South Carolina plantations in the decades from about 1890 until the Second World War.
The setting of the house on the site of the historic Horlbeck house, and the landscaping elements added by the Stones during the 1930s, reflect the combination of historic elements with twentieth century design. A pair of historic brick gateposts remains to the east of the house site. At either side of the wide forecourt in front of the plantation house are formal gardens with brick-paved paths, laid among large live oaks that once shaded the Horlbeck house. The twentieth century plantings, notably camellias and azaleas, have grown to a grand size. Open lawns at each side of the entry drive complete the grounds, which were enclosed with a brick serpentine wall with formal wrought iron gates, probably by the stones, after April 1937. This outdoor space is interrupted only by four Tuscan-columned pergolas, constructed in 1993 as part of the ongoing efforts to enhance the gardens. At the southeast edge of the grounds, within the serpentine wall, is the early brick smokehouse.
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"Mont Royal" (inside) - Stanton Hall, Natchez, MS
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Mont Royal, SC, inside (hall, parlor, dining room, stairs, study) |
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Stanton
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Episode 01, scene 31, 32, 34 Episode 02, scene 19, 23, 25 Episode 03, scene 16, 20, 21, 23, 24, 28 Episode 04, scene 02, 10, 12 Episode 05, scene 02, 10, 27, 28 Episode 06, scene 07, 08, 18, 22, 25, 26, 28, 29, 37 Episode 07, scene 24, 26, 28 Episode 08, scene 09, 15 Episode 09, scene 10, 13, 17, 25, 26, 27, 30 Episode 11, scene 32, 33 Episode 12, scene 10, 24, (34) |
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Openings (outside views) with material from Boonhall Plantation (location for Mont Royal outside)
Comparison Movie To Reality
Movie: hall, round backdrop to the front door real: entrance hall, original front door
Movie: dining room real: dining room
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Movie: study real: library
Movie: parlor real: great parlor
Movie: parlor, fireplace real: great parlor, fireplace
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Movie: upper corridor real: upper corridor
Movie: Clarissa's room real: bedroom 2nd floor
Movie: bedroom 2nd floor real: bedroom 2nd floor
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Location Overview "Mont Royal inside"
1st floor: parlor (left), hall (center), dining room (bottom right), stairs, study (top right)
2nd floor: clockwise from upper right: Brett's room, Ashton's room, stairs, guest room (Madeline in Episode 8), guest room (George in Episode 2), corridor, Orry's room, guest room (Madeline in Episode 7, Ashton in episode 9), Clarissa's room
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Natchez, MS 39120
Tel (601) 446-6631
Visitation daily 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., entrance $6,00, children $3,00
The building was constructed 1849 to 1857 by irish immigrant Frederick Stanton who got wealthy as a Natchez.cotton planter. After Stanton's death in 1859, the estate stayed with his family until 1894. In 1938, the Pilgrimage Garden Club bought it for elegant social events.
Main hall 79 ft in length, 18 ft in height, bronce chanceliersLeuchter
Left hand great and small parlor (music room with piano) running the building's the full length
Right hand dining room 39 ft with china showcase, separated stairs, library
Upper floor 6 bedrooms to central corridor
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House of Overseer Salem Jones at Mont Royal
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Mont Royal, SC, outside the gate, outside (veranda) |
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Comparison Movie To Reality
Film: at the overseer's house real: Greenwood Plantation, veranda of the kitchen building
For the small bricked house of the overseer Salem Jones outside the gates of the "Mont Royal" Plantation, the historic kitchen buiding at Greenwood Plantation in far off Louisiana was used, which assiciated main house and surrounding area stood for Mont Royal's neibouring plantation "Resolute". It is only shown the veranda and the right entrance door wing, but also the striking old tree to the right.
More informations on the Greenwood Plantation see Locations - Resolute
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The remains of "Mont Royal" after it's distruction by fire consisted of pieces of the remaining front colums and chimneys surrounded by piles of bricks, the gate and a wooden about the place where the slave cabins have been located. Since the filming took place at other places, it can be assumed that the scenery was just a backdrop. There are no definitive informations to be found.
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