It was built between 1857 and 1860, and is a two-story, rectangular, cement-covered brick building in the Late Gothic Revival style.

It features a crenellated main tower and corner turrets.

General William Tecumseh Sherman’s troops burned the building in February 1865; it was subsequently restored.

[1] Orangeburg County inmates are now kept in the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center.

This article about a property in Orangeburg County, South Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.