If I met Ryan Gosling, he would want to build me a house.

After a visit to Auldbrass (see previous post), my family headed to Boone Hall Plantation. While the house at Boone Hall is NOT the house that Noah fixes up for Allie in The Notebook, it is the grand summer home of Allie's family. For information about the homes used in the filming of the movie, check out this helpful blog post.

Look familiar?

The house was built in the 1930s in the Colonial Revival style, so it is not actually an antebellum plantation house. The site does include a "slave street" with brick houses built for sharecroppers, but that reflect the design and arrangement of previously existing slave cabins. While not much of the current architecture is from times of slavery, the site did a nice job addressing the layers of history that are present in the story of Boone Hall Plantation. 

And interestingly enough, this house was built in the same general period as the house at Auldbrass. This one was a conscious reference to a historic past, while Wright's house was an effort to find innovation and new designs. It was great to see both houses in the same day.

Title of post from youtube video found here.