Richmond Plantation, located in rural Berkeley County, South Carolina, includes a manor house and outbuildings constructed ca 1927 as a hunting lodge for George A Ellis and a cemetery and archeological features associated with an eighteenth and nineteenth century rice plantation. The manor house and outbuildings are historically important for their association with Ellis, a prominent New York financier. The Ellis complex is also significant as an example of the phenomenon of the purchase and development of nonproductive southern plantations by wealthy northerners in the years between 1890 and 1940. The manor house, designed by the architectural firm of Clinton and Russell, is architecturally significant as an example of the Shavian Manorial Style. Archeologically, the property contains significant features, that should yield information important to the history of rice plantations in South Carolina. - NRHP