Hobcaw House Complex
The Hobcaw House was Bernard Baruch's winter resort home. It is about 3 mi (4.8 km) south of the main entrance and overlooked Winyah Bay. It was built in 1930 to replace the Donaldson House, which burned in December 1929. The red brick, house was designed by the Columbia, South Carolina architects Lafaye and Lafaye.
The two-story, rectangular house has a 2 1⁄2-story service wing at the rear. The house has a gabled, composition shingle roof with three gabled dormers. The main floor has a living room overlooking Winyah Bay, a coat-and-gun room, and two guest rooms. There are four bedrooms and a guest room on the second floor. The service wing has a kitchen, butler's pantry, mud roof, storage rooms, and servant's lounge. Four bedrooms for servants are on the second floor of the service wing.
Other structures in the complex include the generator house, a smokehouse, laundry, storage barn, a playhouse built about 1910, tennis court, the chauffeur's house, the superintendent's house, chicken house, and the kennel. A greenhouse was built in 1955.
Barnard Baruch entertained many friends at Hobcaw Barony. Winston Churchill and his daughter, Diana, visited in 1932. President Roosevelt took a month-long working vacation in Spring 1944 during World War II. Ralph Pulitzer, Walter Huston, Generals George C. Marshall, Omar Bradley and Mark Clark, and Senators Robert A. Taft and Harry F. Byrd were a few of his notable guests.
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